PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reinforcement, Signify
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The consequences of our action and its impact on our future behaviour. Classical condition is forming associations, mapping current things you do to new stimuli (e. g. dog"s drooli(cid:374)g to (cid:271)ell(cid:895) Operant conditions explains the creation of new behaviour (e. g. dolphins jumping through burning hoops) 1930s/40s/50s: everyone was excited about genetics, and the shadow of eugenics is evident. Related to dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s theory, people ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) usi(cid:374)g artifi(cid:272)ial sele(cid:272)tion to breed animals, so (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:449)e use this o(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s? (cid:894)sele(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:271)reedi(cid:374)g(cid:895) This idea climaxed to hitler, where he wanted to use eugenics to create blond-hair, blue eyed people, and when people united against hitler, they were also against eugenics. Now there is many people who are against eugenics, and their stance is environment and nature matter. Edward thorndike uses puzzle boxes to put cats in, and if different levers are pressed the cat can go to different compartments, times how long a cat takes to get our/solve the puzzle box.
