PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chocolate Cake, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Extinction - a return of a behavior to baseline when conditioning stops. Breaking the consequences for a certain behavior. Baseline: back to the level before the reinforcement or punishment happened. E. g. even if you smile, chocolate cake won"t be given, and therefore response will go into extinction (back to the normal before reinforcement or punishment) Generalization - increasing or decreasing similar responses due to punishment or reinforcement. E. g. similar behaviors done more and less often as a result of the consequences that are introduced. If you smile, and you receive cake, you could be more active in class, and answer more questions Discrimination - only increasing the specific response that was reinforced or punished. E. g. if you decide to do nothing more than just smile when you receive cake, you are discriminating. Shaping - rewarding successive approximations of a behavior that"s being reinforced. Reward is given with successive approximations of a behavior.
