PSY 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Observational Learning, Classical Conditioning, Token Economy
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Disregards references to inner thoughts, feelings and motives. Focuses on events in the environment that help produce behavior. Main goal = describe, predict and control behavior. Tone + food --> leads to --> salivation. Extinction - of the conditional response = present the cs. Spontaneous recovery - of the conditioned response = reappearance of the cs after time. Generalization - respond to stimuli similar to the cs. Discrimination - can tell the difference between cs and other irrelevant stimuli. Law of effect - more likely to repeat rewarded behaviors and less likely to repeat punished behaviors. Behaviors are shaped by their consequences (rewards and punishments) Reinforcement - process by which a behavior increases. Positive - present a reward after a response and the response increases. Positive present a reward after a response and the response increases. Negative - take something aversive (unpleasant) away and the response increases) Behavior not just due to responding to external forces (our environment)