PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning
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Skinner"s experiments: b. f. skinner (early 20th century) Majored in english in college, but decided to go to graduate school in. One of the seminal figures of the behaviorist movement. Skinner is to operant conditioning what pavlov is to classical conditioning. If you do something and get rewarded for it, you are most likely to do it again. Reinforcement (always going to strengthen a behavior)*: positive reinforcement. Strengthens a response by presenting something positive: negative reinforcement. Strengthens a response by removing something negative: primary reinforcer. Something that is reinforcing without us having to learn that we want/need it: conditioned reinforcer. Which reinforcement schedule is the coffee shop using to attract customers: continuous reinforcement, fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, variable interval. Punishment: the opposite of reinforcement- punishment decreases a particular response, positive punishment. Weakens a response by presenting something negative: negative punishment. Weakens a response by removing something positive: four major drawbacks of physical punishment in parenting:
