PSYC 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Classical Conditioning, Lithium Chloride, Psych
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Thorndike recognized that instrumental conditioning occurs in the presence of particular stimuli. Stimuli in the context, some easy to pick out, some difficult, that occurred in the presence of building the response reinforcer/relationship. Three-term contingency: three events take part in instrumental conditioning. O- outcome (reinforce; food) note:o refers to reinforcement from now on. Possible association: s-r, s-o, r-o (each of these contributes at some point along the way) Example: you walk into a room you"ve been in before. In that room someone has treated you poorly but, that person is not there. The room evokes a response and you leave. The room produces outcome responses, outcome was used as a tool that conditioned you to a stimulus. S-o associations are formed implicitly via classical conditioning: stimulus (s)=cs and outcome (o)= us. Through conditioning, the response (r) is instigated by 2 factors: s evokes r directly (instrumental, s produces expectancy of o (classical)
