PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Contiguity, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 103
• Professor: Nancy Franklin

Document Summary

Basic principles of learning (and its roots in the behaviorist approach) Temporal contiguity: cs & ucs should be close in time, tone should signal that food is about to come. Generalization: other tones can also produce conditioned response. Discrimination: different tones = capable of learning as different if they were trained (not presenting food with new bell) Extinction: when cs is no longer paired with us. Biological preparedness & rapid learning: rat group 1, dra(cid:374)k (cid:862)(cid:271)right (cid:374)oisy(cid:863) (cid:449)ater a(cid:374)d got i(cid:373)(cid:373)ediate sho(cid:272)k, next day: avoiding bright noisy water, rat group 2, drank saccharine water. Got sick several hours later: next day: avoided saccharine water, temporal contiguity unnecessary because biologically prepared to make. Operant conditioning this association: positive reinforcement (reward, punishment (unpleasant, negati(cid:448)e rei(cid:374)for(cid:272)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:894)stoppi(cid:374)g so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that"s u(cid:374)pleasa(cid:374)t(cid:895, so not the same as punishment.