PSYC 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Observational Learning, Sex Doll, Albert Bandura

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2010
• Professor: Seth A Gitter

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Some behaviors are too complex to expect the target to do randomly. Shaping: successive reinforcement of the desired behavior. Continue reinforcing, slowly moving towards the correct behavior. Used to train complex behaviors that the organism does not do on its own: for example, a dog does not spin in a circle on its own (normally) We cannot use normal operant conditioning (aka wait until it happens to reward) so we start by snapping when the dog turns its head. When the dog increases its head turing only reward when the head and the paw move. Be careful not to extinguish the behavior by not rewarding. Then go to two paws and eventually the dog will spin in a circle: reinforce close behavior until we get the desired behavior. Is operant conditioning good for anything other than dog training: aba applied behavior analysis, used to .