PSYC 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabula Rasa, Reinforcement, Latent Learning
6 Jan 2018
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Classical conditioning: watson: behavior is always a reaction to stimulus, the parts. A conditioned can be unconditioned: what makes a person go. Law of contiguity: when a pattern of stimuli is experienced along with a response, the two will become associated. Abc: associated behaviors connect: what makes a person grow. Development: the cumulative record that experience engraves on the tabula rasa of the mind: testable: yes. If a particular behavior is immediately followed by a pleasant consequence, this behavior will almost certainly increase in frequency: what makes a person go. Important notes: it"s often in the wording (getting a ticket decreases speeding behavior). In order for something to be punishing or reinforcing it must decrease or increase behavior. 4 schedules of reinforcement: fixed interval, variable interval, fixed ratio, variable ratio. Effectiveness of consequences depends on immediacy, contingency, deprivation, satiation, and characteristics of consequences: what makes a person grow. Situational shaping: testable: very reliable and widely used.
