PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reinforcement
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*we already know how to measure and graph behaviour. The process in which a behaviour is strengthened by the immediate consequence that reliably follows it"s occurrence. This process has shaped our behavioural repertoire (for better or worse) since the moment of birth. Reinforcement was discovered by thorndike but research on this was mostly done by skinner he used rats to experiment skinner box. The terms reinforcement and positive reinforcement are often used interchangeably. Are those that operate/interact on the environment to generate consequences, and are in turn influenced by those consequences. Bre those consequences that strengthen an operant behaviour. * but what"s reinforcing for 1 person may not be reinforcing for another. Any object/event that can be detected by any of the 5 senses and has the potential to influence. Negative reinforcement is not the same as punishment. The confusion lies w/ the use of the term negative : negative reinforcement = involves an aversive stimulus being removed.
