PSYC 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Belongingness, Reinforcement, Contiguity
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Variable vs. stereotyped response: what we do most easily we will do over and over (stereotyped) Belongingness of response: modifies the acceleration or deceleration of conditioning. Behavioral systems: what fits together, things like timing. Depends on what is reinforced: reinforce any behavior stereotyped response (it will do the most simple response over and over again, reinforce variability variable response. Pigeons peck 2 keys 8 (fr 8) times food: control group: any sequence food, variability group: no repeat food. Thorndike"s puzzle boxes: cats wouldn"t yawn to escape, they didn"t make the connection; they don"t associate yawning with escape, but they associate pulling a rope with escape. Final cause: yawning doesn"t fit with the reinforcers he was studying. Breland and breland, 1961: trained animals for zoos and commercials, raccoons washing. Raccoon was trained to put coins in a bank for food. Eventually raccoons began washing the coins as if they were food.
