PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Psy

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: diaz

Document Summary

Skinner elaborates on thorndike"s law of effect: law of effect: thorndike"s principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely. Reinforcement: in operant conditioning, and event that strengthens behavior. Shaping: an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior. Reward responses that are ever closer to the final desired behavior and you ignore all other responses. Positive reinforcement: increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response. Negative reinforcement: increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli. A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response. Primary reinforcers: an innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need. Conditioned reinforcers (secondary reinforcers): a stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer.