PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reinforcement, Discrimination Learning, Classical Conditioning
15 Oct 2016
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Learning: relatively permanent change in behaviour potential caused by experience or practice. This shapes the behavior because it helps with experience. Things in the environment vs the behavior that occurs. Pavlov studies: studied the digestive system of a dog. Pavlov discovered that there are built in reflexes and learned reflexes/responses. There are two different responses and stimulus: unconditioned response/stimulus (built in, conditioned response/stimulus (learned) ex: meat powder on the tongue vs seeing the meat powder. The consequences that are being given are controlling the behavior that happens. Discrimination learning: reinforcements and punishments only happen in certain circumstances ex: bad language when with friends and bad language when with family. For operant conditioning, there are basic training procedures that need to happen: when wanting to provide a good give positive reinforcement, when wanting to remove a bad give negative reinforcement. Learning goes away faster during continuous and partial is more resistant to extinction. Partial schedules can come in two different types:
