Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Learned Helplessness, Piece Work, Classical Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

Document Summary

Responses that get reinforced are more likely to occur. Vr gives highest/fastest response ( then fr then fi), vi is lowest. Experience with exincion maintains responding because reinforcement is unpredictable. Vr or vi are most resistant to exincion. The internal processing of informaion (thoughts, beliefs, etc. ) Tolman cogniive maps tradiional s - r approach. Factor theory of avoidance: classical condiioning: ucs (shock) --- ucr (fear pain) === cs (light) --- cr (fear, operant condiioning. Terminaion of light acts as negaive reinforce for the jump response. Given some even, one outcome is more likely to occur than another. Animal expects shock to occur more oten when light is present. The cs(light) allows us to predict that the ucs will occur (prediction & control) Animals who previously had no control over their environment learned that there was nothing they could do to stop shock. Psychotherapy based on princinples of classical or operant condiioning.