PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Snail Mail, Infrared Lamp
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Associate a response (behavior) and its consequences. Learn to repeat behaviors followed by desirable results. Learn to avoid behaviors followed by undesirable results. Operant conditioning and classical conditioning are both forms of associative learning. Organisms form associations between stimuli cs and us. It involves automatic reactions to stimuli (respondent to behavior) Stimulus precedes the response and elicits it. Organisms associate their own behavior with consequences. Stimulus follows the response and strengthens it. Placed cats in a puzzle box with a food reward outside the box. Recorded the amount of time it took them to figure out how to escape. Concluded that rewarded behavior is likely to recur, which he called the law of effect. Thorndike"s law of effect stated that rewarded behavior is likely to recur. Using thorndike"s law of effect as a starting point skinner developed the operant chamber or the skinner box to study operant conditioning. Any event that strengthens the behavior it follows.
