PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Puzzle Box, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reinforcement
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Operant conditioning: the learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses. Ex) skinner box to make rat only press food lever after a certain stimulus: operant conditioning and animal survival learning. Puzzle box for dogs: reinforcement and punishment. Whether or not something is reinforcing or punishing is determined by the effect that thing or event has on future behavior. Positive reinforcement: the reinforcement of a response by the addition or experience of a pleasurable stimulus: stickers for engaging in boring psychological testing, clickers for attendance. Negative reinforcement: the reinforcement of a response by the removal, escape from, or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus. Ex) taking aspirin for a headache is negatively reinforced: removal of a headache! Using drugs when experiencing withdrawal symptoms, cleaning a house to get rid of a mess. Punishment: any event or object that, when following a response, makes that response less likely to happen again.
