PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Equivalence Class, Little Albert Experiment, Baggage Carousel
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Lect 4- schedules of reinforcement & stimulus discrimination & Examining increasingly more complex ways in which reinforcement can be applied. Continuous: a response is reinforced every time. Reinforced everytime you solve a math prob. Reinforced every 5 times you solve a math prob. Schedule of reinforcement: a rule specifying which occurrences of a given behaviour, if any, will be reinforced (on what sched will the reinforcement come) Diff schedules of reinforcement have diff impacts on the rate of behaviours & the speed of extinction. Different schedules may be optimal for different kinds of. Continuous reinforcement is the simplest schedule of reinforcement situations. Extinction is the complete opposite of continuous reinforcement (none) amount of reinforcement (every time) extinction intermittent reinforcement continuous reinforcement. Generally best to provide continuous reinforcement during initial learning of a beh (acquisition phase), & then switch to intermittent reinforcement to help maintain the behaviour. Advantages of intermittent reinforcement (vs. continuous) for the maintenance of behaviour:
