PSYC-115 FA5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Busy Signal, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning
13 Jun 2018
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February 23, 2018
Lecture 11 Generalization: Simple to Complex
●Schedules of reinforcement: Humans
○CRF- opening a door
○FR- piecemeal work (widget maker)
○VR- gambling/salesperson
○FI-scheduled drug availability
○VI- dialing after busy signal
○DRL- assembly line pressure (ostracize people who do too much work bc
it makes the others look bad)
○DRH- commissions (the more you do and the faster you do it, the more
you get paid)
○CRF- pushing button for elevator
○Complexities
■Chained schedule- where one must complete one component to
gain access to a second component. The completion of the second
component is reinforced. Ex: progression through school
■Concurrent schedules- where one has access to two or more
reinforcement schedules at the same time. Ex: activity within
school
■Animals match the reinforcement conditions
■Delayed discounting- discounting the delayed reinforcer for the
immediate reinforcer
●Generalization-
○RFR-reinforcement
■Positive reinforcement
■Negative reinforcement
○Punishment
■Positive punishment
■Negative punishment
○Assumption that the principles that we develop in animals apply to
humans
■Support: human analogs, e.g., CTAs, schedules of reinforcement
and drug self-administration
■Criticism: simple effects to complex models. Given the simplicity
of animal learning and behavior, can we truly apply this to human
complexity, e.g., memory, thinking, language?
○Cognitive Challenges:
Document Summary
Drl- assembly line pressure (ostracize people who do too much work bc it makes the others look bad) Drh- commissions (the more you do and the faster you do it, the more you get paid) Chained schedule- where one must complete one component to gain access to a second component. The completion of the second component is reinforced. Concurrent schedules- where one has access to two or more reinforcement schedules at the same time. Delayed discounting- discounting the delayed reinforcer for the immediate reinforcer. Assumption that the principles that we develop in animals apply to humans. Support: human analogs, e. g. , ctas, schedules of reinforcement and drug self-administration. Classical conditioning: current view is that classical. Devaluation- where the ucs is made weaker; the. Potentiation- where the ucs is made stronger; the. Operant conditioning- current view is that operant conditioning is a type of learning where the animal learns a relationship between the.
