PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Little Albert Experiment, Reinforcement, Behaviorism

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Bianchi

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I. e. , bunny rabbits, fur on coat, dog. Operant conditioning: the learning of voluntary behavior through the e ects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses. Thorndike"s law of effect: if a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated; if followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend to not be repeated. Skinner was a behaviorist; studied only observable and measurable behavior. Learning depends on what happens after the response: the consequence. Reinforcement: any event or s(cid:2210)mulus, that when following a response, increases the probability that the behavior will occur again. Primary reinforcer : any reinforcer that is naturally reinforcing by mee(cid:2210)ng a basic biological need, such as hunger, thirst, or touch. Secondary reinforcer: any reinforcer (cid:336)usually symbolic(cid:337) that has been linked with a primary reinforcer. Positive reinforcement: increasing the frequency of a behavior by the addi(cid:2210)on of a consequence.