PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Classical Conditioning, Electronic Component, Operant Conditioning
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Classical and operant conditioning combined: extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination. Generalization: enables us to apply prior experience. Similar stimuli same outcome , different outcome. When similar stimuli predict similar outcomes: pigeons trained to peck yellow light. Humans & other organisms tend , all other things being equal, to treat similar events similarly and to expect similar stimuli to have similar consequence. Discrimination is the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus. Peak shift: trained at one behavior than trained something similar without reward then go to the first behavior because the other one not reinforced. When dissimilar stimuli predict the same outcome: generalization occur when physical similarities b/t the stimuli are absent, organisms tend to cluster or treat equivalently stimulus feature that tend to co-occur. Where there"s smoke there"s fire it is possible for generalization.
