PSYCH-UA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Exposure Therapy, Operant Conditioning
18 Dec 2016
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As far as discrimination is concerned you may have a discriminative cue/stimulus. How close to the original learned stimulus does it need to be. Discrimination also applies to nature of response. Generalization also applies to the cue: how different from the original learned stimulus can the new neutral stimulus be. Need an unconditioned stimulus with an unconditioned response. More intense the original experience was, the more likely it is that there will be an occurrence of one-trial learning. In relation to pavlov"s theory neurotic paradox. Most learning is more complex than that. Doesn"t want to talk about anything inside the head. Epi-phenomenal: no causal properties that are crucial to take into account. Begin w/ an operant: operant = randomly emitted response, haphazard, chance, purposeless, random behavior. Skinner would turn operant into behavioral performance. Shaping by successive approximations to turn randomly emitted behavior into something that he wants it to be.
