PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dual Process Theory, Habituation, Dishabituation
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Application: dishabituation" can demonstrate an ability to discriminate response increases suddenly when the stimulus is changed for one trial shows whether different organisms have ability to perceive differences in objects. Application: using habituation (making infants bored) to determine their ability to discriminate if infants don"t show preferences, it might be because either they can discriminate the stimuli but have no preference they cannot tell the stimuli apart. Thorndike and the law of effect" operant conditioning: learning consequences of behavior; increase frequency or not depending on consequences of event. Thorndike studied cats required to escape from a puzzle box; eventually succeeded randomly, but gradually perform desired action more quickly with repeated trials. Thorndike proposed the law of effect : behaviors are repeated if they were satisfying" criticized as being unscientific" because it made reference to an unobservable construct. Satisfaction" which ought to be replaced by reference only too observable things (stimuli and responses) Negative and positive reinforcement, negative and positive punishment.
