Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Autonomic Nervous System, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

Two types of conditioning (exam question) know the difference. Avoidance of stimulus (negative reinforcement operant conditioning) avoid phobic object to avoid your fear phobia are a combination of the two types of conditioning. Imaginal exposure associate feared stimuli with relaxation instead of trauma easy to treat if you face your fears involves the autonomic nervous system. Consequences take physical action to create the response. During conditioning neurtral stimulus (bell) will create no response ucs (f00d) create ucr (salivation) cs (bell) ucs (food) create ucr (salivation) Negative reinforcement goes up (subtract bad, remove something that is undesirable) When bob throws a temper tantrum, he gets to go to golf and be happy. When bob leaves, mary"s house becomes more peaceful. Token economies just dealing with behaviour, not emotions increase treatment of enjoyable activities to treat depression find a way to reward them for token economies add and subtract rewards.