PSY 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Classical Conditioning, B. F. Skinner, Reinforcement

• School: Hofstra University
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 011
• Professor: Pineno

Document Summary

Remember that every behavior is lawful; it is a result of both the antecedents and preside before it and the consequences that come after a behavior. Classical conditioning is controlled by an unconditioned stimulus or a conditioned stimulus and the results that follow. Operant conditioning is determined by the antecedents and consequences that consist of the three-term contingency that bf skinner rst proposed. Examples of antecedents: the setting and timeframe in which a behavior occurs; the events in the environment occurring before the behavior; the people present when the behavior is preformed, and the frequency, intensity, and magnitude of the target behavior. It is important to determine establishing operations (which make a stimulus more potent and thus the behavior more willing to occur) and abolishing operations (which make a stimulus less potent) It would be helpful to determine would could be established as a potential reinforcer to help change the target behavior.