PSYC 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Elevator, Tantrum, Human Behavior
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Professor jennifer: in chapter 7, we focused on how operant behavior can be strengthened with _____ or weakened with ________, reinforcement, punishment, now, we will discuss how operant behavior weakens through a process called extinction. Extinction: goal: to extinguish an operant behavior, side effects of extinction, extinction burst: temporary increase in behavior. Example: pressing an elevator button lots of times if it doesn"t come down o. Increase in variability: change in approach to behavior. External: resurgence: reappearance of behaviors that used to be reinforcing in the past. Example 1: you call your ex when your current boyfriend isn"t giving you. Example 2: i did something mean to my friend to hurt her feelings, but attention she doesn"t want to hang out. Now i have a natural tendency to try and relive past moments -> go somewhere where there was reinforcement (like the mall or parent"s house: depression: low level of activity. Intermittent (particularly variable ratio schedules) = more resistant.
