PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Reinforcement, Latent Learning, Observational Learning

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

Document Summary

Partial reinforcement-- longer to acquire and extinguish, don"t get rewarded every time. Number of times you respond: number of rewards you get. Not too hard to extinguish behavior once learned. This method is used in factories, piece rate . Ratio of when animal gets rewarded is random each time. Very hard to extinguish behavior once learned. After reward is given, must wait a fixed amount of time for next reward. This method is used when checking the mail; it only comes once a day at a certain time. Reward is not based on number of responses. After reward is given, the amount of time for the next reward is random. It"s useful sometimes to suppress the negative behavior long enough to introduce positive reinforcement with a positive behavior. Elicits emotional responses that are incompatible with learning new behaviors. Negative effects could create a stereotype for the type of people/situation delivering the punishment.