PSY10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Medial Forebrain Bundle, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Belongingness

• School: ND
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY10000
• Professor: Radvansky Gabriel

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Questions of the day: classical conditioning, what are some neurological changes due to conditional learning, types of conditioning, phenomena of conditioning, what is the little albert experiment, learned helplessness, drug addiction. Getting money for getting good grades: negative reinforcements: removing something unpleasant (negative outcome) Decide to clean up mess to avoid losing stuff: positive punishment: adding something unpleasant. Getting a ticket for speeding: negative punishment: removing something pleasant. Time-out, losing cellphone: kinds of reinforcers, primary: biological needs of desires. Social interaction, food: conditioned: acquired needs or desires. Directly or indirectly give you access to primary reinforces. Usually, what happens before the event is not related but we think it actually is: biological constraints, learning does not follow the equipotentiality principle, equipotentiality principle: any organisms can learn any associations, constraints: Belongingness: easier to form associations with the things that go together: reinforcement, outcome that increases behavior, reward pathways (in the book)