PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
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A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. An organism comes to associate different events. Tone (conditioned stimulus- cs) leads to salivation (conditioned response- cr) Tendency to respond to similar to the conditioned stimulus. Ability to distinguish between the conditioned stimulus and other irrelevant stimuli. More likely to repeat rewarded behavior & less likely to repeat punished behavior. Behavior is shaped by its consequences (rewards and punishments) Guide an animal (or person) to a response. Behavior is shaped by its consequences(rewards and punishments) Guide an animal or person to a response. Get more restrictive about behavior you reward. Positive: present a stimulus after a response and the response increases. Negative: increase in behavior results from taking something aversive. A response (behavior) is reinforced after a fixed amount of time. A response (behavior) is reinforced after a varying amount of time. Response (behavior) is reinforced after a set number of responses.
