PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sensory Memory, Animal Training, Cultural Learning
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Shaping: method of successive approximations: give progressively less reinforcers. Cognitive map: strict behaviorism doesn"t work in mazes and rats, if a rat has an option blocked it takes the next shortest route, not the most similar root as said by behaviorists. Instinctive drift: animal training, can train all you want, but instinctive natural behavior always underlies that training, at any point in time that natural behavior can come back out at you. Token economies: can use anywhere, giving a generic reward, individuals can exchange tokens for something they really want, has to matter to individual, ex. Big corporations will offer different benefit packages for different age workers: get away from one size fits all performance. Advantages: avoid negative consequences, no need to reinvent the wheel , rate models, cultural transmission, role models are important. Kids turned lose with booboo doll just explored it, studied properties of doll. One group had violent model interact with doll.
