Psychology 1000 Lecture 11: November 20, 2012

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

How can conditioning help us to treat psychological disorders: higher order conditioning is more effecting, secondary reinforcement. Stimuli that have been associated with primary reinforcers. Reinforcement can be delayed but it"s most effective if presented immediately: b. f. skinner. Studied the response-reinforcement bond and stated that it is critical responses that get reinforced are more likely to occur. Shaping: schedules of reinforcement know the graphs for all. Fr5 reinforce every 5th correct response. On average, reinforce every nth correct response. Ex: vr5 could be 3,7,5/13,1,1/4,4,7 (in each case, the mean is. Reinforce first correct response after a certain time as elapsed. Ex: fi 1 minute reinforce first correct response after 1 minute. Reinforce first correct response after a certain time has elapsed, Any schedule will receive better results that a cr schedule because of the partial reinforcement effect. Experience with extinction maintains a response because reinforcement is unpredictable. Partial schedules are always better than continuous.