PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Candy Crush Saga, Errorless Learning, Classical Conditioning
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Stress the importance of generalizing into the real world: therapist were very attentive and giving reinforcement immediately after the. Skill not mastered if child cant perform it across different labels behaviour. In terms of having a variable schedule: part of what keeps you going. Fading: the gradual change over successive trials of a stimulus that controls a response, so that the response eventually occurs to a partially changed or completely new stimulus, what is changing is the stimulus. Always stopping at the stop sign is good stimulus control: may require training. Child riding bike with help but want to go with no assistance: want to fade the prompt, the stimulus is changing over time. It takes time to correct it: problematic because you don"t want them to go down the wrong path, extinction (lack of reinforcement) can produce undesirable emotional reactions. Fading can occur along different dimensions of stimuli.
