PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Forego, Reinforcement
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Skinner"s analysis of operant behaviour involves three events: antecedents stimuli present before behaviour occurs, behaviours behaviour that the organism emits, consequences what follows the behaviour. Operant conditioning type of learning in which behaviour is influenced by its consequences. The organism learns an association between behavior and its consequences. Law of effect (thorndike) in a given situation, a response followed by an unsatisfying outcome will become less likely to occur. Discriminative stimulus signal that a particular response will produce certain consequences (e. g. a light that would signal the rat to pull the lever, but if no light was on, no food would come out) Negative reinforcement a response is strengthened by the removal or avoidance of a stimulus (negative reinforcer) Operant extinction the weakening and eventual disappearance of a response because it is no longer reinforced: resistance to extinction notes the degree to which non-reinforced responses persist.
