PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Techno, Vr6 Engine, Stop Sign
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In the news: research looking at effectiveness of personal financial incentives aimed at changing health behaviours. Seem to be most effective with simple, discrete, time-limited behaviours (e. g. , getting a vaccine) Less effective for complex behaviours (e. g. , dieting, quitting smoking) Need to combine with social support and skills training. Intermittent reinforcement: examining increasingly more complex ways in which reinforcement can be applied, recall: continuous reinforcement vs. Continuous: a response is reinforced every time. Schedules of reinforcement: schedule of reinforcement: a rule specifying which occurrences of a given behaviour, if any, will be reinforced. Different schedules of reinforcement have different impacts on the rate of behaviours and the speed of extinction (produce different behaviour patterns) Different schedules may be optimal for different kinds of situations: continuous reinforcement is the simplest schedule of reinforcement. Fast learning and fast extinction because you expect reinforcement every single time: intermittent reinforcement: Slow learning and slow extinction: extinction is the complete opposite of continuous reinforcement.
