PSYCH 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Seat Belt, American Psychologist
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Operant conditioning: organisms associate their behaviors with consequences (associated learning) type of associative learning. Behaviors followed by desirable consequences increase in frequency. Behaviors followed by undesirable consequences decrease in frequency. Operant behavior: behavior that operates on the environment producing consequences. Respondent behavior: behavior that happens as an automatic response to some stimuli. *we teach the dog that when a bell rings he gets food. Behaviorism: disregard cognition, psych is based on observable behavior. He is committed to finding ways to objectively measure behavior. He has influenced by pavlov, though his work is similar to thorndike"s. E. l. thorndike american psychologist law of effect. Law of effect: rewarded behavior is likely to happen again. So basically you got a puzzle box and you put a cat inside. You put a reward like a treat on the outside to encourage mr. whiskers to escape. Finding: as cat was repeatedly placed in the box, it took less time to escape on each trial.
