PY 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Stimulus Control

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 361
• Professor: Brett Grant

Document Summary

In successive discrimination training, the discriminative stimuli (cs+ and cs- or s+ and s-) alternate, usually randomly (cid:1) In simultaneous discrimination training, the discriminative stimuli are presented at the same time (cid:1) In matching to sample discrimination training, the task is to select from two or more alternatives the stimulus that matches a sample (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Errorless discrimination training- the cs- or s- is introduced in very weak form & gradually strengthened (cid:1) Differential outcomes effect- discrimination training proceeds more rapidly when different behaviors produce different reinforcers. Immediate vs. delayed reinforcement (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) We have a tendency to generalize because it often has survival value. Discrimination also plays an important role in survival. Stimulus control is the tendency for a behavior to occur in the presence of a cs+ or s+ but not in the presence of a cs- or s- If you are discriminating, you are under stimulus control (cid:1)