PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Learned Helplessness, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning
29 Oct 2020
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General psychology: shaping by successive approximations: reinforcement that"s used to guide the. Athletes and performers with lucky articles of clothing/ songs etc: learned helplessness punishment given that has nothing to do with your behavior, ex. 2 groups of dogs that are shocked through the floor of the cage, over and over. 1 group could stop the zap and learned how by pressing a panel, 1 group couldn"t stop shock. Then both groups were placed in a cage to be shocked. All they had to do was step over a small wall to escape, but dogs who previously were helpless still didn"t feel they could escape: same behaviors in depressive people, latent learning. One group was always rewarded when they got from one end to the other another was never rewarded. Initially it appeared as the reinforcement made learning faster, but then they started rewarding the other group, and they could run it just as fast as the other group.
