PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: John Salamone

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Classical or pavlovian conditioning: associate cs with us, early figures: pavlov and watson. Then s > r increased frequency or speed: if s > r > s annoyer (e. g. stress. A response followed by presentation of a reinforcer increases in probability: negative reinforcement. A response followed by presentation of a punisher decreases in probability: omission (timeout) These procedures decrease responding: omission can separate organisms from stimuli, or separate stimuli from organisms, important points. Negative reinforcement and punishment are not the same thing. Punishment can have negative consequences; can increase aggression. Fixed interval (iv): the first response after a fixed time interval is reinforced. Variable interval (vi): the first response after an interval is reinforced, but the particular time interval varies around an average value. For interval schedule the unit are in second (i. e. the time interval: two types of ratio schedules: Fixed ratio (fr): reinforcement occurs after a specific number of responses are made.