01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Learned Helplessness, Classical Conditioning

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Professor Marvasti

Document Summary

Generalization: the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses. Discrimination: in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus. Learned helplessness: the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events. Respondent behavior: behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Operant conditioning: a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher. Operant behavior: the network of factors and events involved in the behavior of human and non-human animals. Law of effect: the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences. Shaping: an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.