PS288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Aspirin, Headache, Alarm Clock
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Reinforcement always leads to an increase in future behaviour. An increase in the future likelihood of a behaviour following the presentation of a positive reinforcer. So whats gonna happen to the contingency: the thing that they liked will decrease because they have to do the thing they didn"t want to do first. Cannot always allow immediate access to high frequency behaviour following performance of low frequency behaviour. Low flexibility in administration of reinforcer with all or non activities. Reinforcer is provided only if the target response is performed and otherwise not given always need to go together: delay of reinforcement. Response that are immediately followed by the reinforcement are learned better than with delay: magnitude of reinforcement. Response frequency increases as magnitude of reinforcement increases general rule, larger reinforcements lead to bigger behaviour change: quality of reinforcers. Highly preferred reinforcers lead to greater performance: schedule of reinforcement.
