PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Organism, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Learning: classical, an organism is associating two things: Stimulus: outside the organism, something happening in the environment. Response: biological reflex, pavlov, watson, operant, organism is an active participant with the environment doing something, and getting some type of stimulus, thorndike, skinner. Thorndike: came up with thorndike box (also known as puzzle box, box contained a very simple a maze, and at the end there would be a lever. It is now known as operative conditioning: further developed thorndike"s ideas, mainly the law of effect, used rats instead of cats, used a skinner box (box with a lever. If the rat touched the lever, a food pellet would be: he was able to train pigeon"s to play ping pong using principles of operant conditioning. Operant conditioning: reinforcer, any consequence of behavior that ends up increasing the amount of behavior, will always increase behavior, two types: Positive: something is given to the animal in order to increase behavior, ex- praise, money, food.
