PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism
16 Apr 2016
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Instrumental or operant condiioning: thorndike"s law of efect. If a behavior is followed by a reward, the response is the strengthen. 20th pull of a lever: leads to fast, steady responding, hard to exinguish because unpredictable. Main claims of behaviorism: yes, classical and instrumental condiioning work for most species and content, but do the same laws of learning really apply equally well to all types of animals and all content or types of simuli. Instrumental condiioning involves forming an explanaion: animal that is not hungry will not engage in behavior that has been reinforced with food, animal expects behavior to lead to being fed doesn"t want to be fed. Summary: all animals can learn associaions between a cs (bell) and an us (food), and between acions and their consequences, but learning theory neglected, biological predisposiions, mental representaion, learning without reinforcement.
