PSYC 1010 Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: R. jubis

Document Summary

Stimulated response: cause consequences to each reaction. such as positive reinforcement. (sr+). Immediacy of the reinforcer: refers to the time between the good behaviour and the rewarding of the reinforcement to the individual. Your reinforce should occur ideally right after the response in order for the association to be made. The longer you wait the less effective the reinforcement will be. B. f skinner studied operant conditioning and its effects on behaviour. his research used rats and pigeons to learn how the different schedules affect them and similarly people. With pigeons however, whenever they pecked at a light a food pellet was dispensed. Everything we know is derived from this kind of research. reinforcement schedules can be continuous or partial. if partial it can be further split into two types, a ratio or interval schedule. Sam gets a dollar every single time he makes it.