PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Airsoft Gun, Classical Conditioning, Tabula Rasa
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He likes the taste and eats quite a few. Soon he becomes very ill with an upset. Every time he walks by the restaurant, he feels nausea: usc = oysters, ucr = nausea, cs = restaurant, cr = nausea. In-class water-spray: usc = water, ucr = flinching, cs = can, cr = flinching. Operant conditioning: history of operant conditioning, edward thorndike, american psychologist, law of effect (thorndike proposed this, not operant conditioning) Conditioning: learning depends on what happens after the response: the consequence, gave positive and negative reinforcement based on what response made. Psych 2000: moen 4: reinforcement, any event that increases the future probability a behavior will occur, strengthens the behavior it follows. It can be positive or negative: positive: adding; showing up on time gets bonus, negative: removing, there is positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement, + = giving something good.
