PSY-2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Weaning, Operant Conditioning
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Operant behavior is omitted instead of elicited (voluntary) Antecedent can be many things (yellow light could be discriminative stimulus) (perform different at church versus bar) Intrinsic- doing well on a test, learning a new musical piece if musician. Premack principle- use the highly probable behavior to reinforce the low probably behavior. If i study an hour, then i can watch tv. Abolishing operation- martz was made to smoke a whole cigarette at a young age to stop her from wanting to later. Instructions- better response from others if you tell them what to do. Awareness- condition certain situations without awareness but generally not ethical.
