PSYB38 Lecture Notes - Reinforcement, Air Horn, Startle Response
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Behaviours that operate on the environment to generate consequences and are in turn influenced by those consequences. Conditioned reinforcer that is paired with a single back up reinforcer. Stimulus paired with more than one kind of backup reinforcer. Based on idea that activities, like objects, can serve as reinforcers. A reinforcer is any activity whose probability of occurring is greater than that of the reinforced behaviour. =using high probability behaviour (desirable) and using it to reinforce a. Urging them to engage in the desirable activity helped them engage in less desirable activity. To perform a desirable activity, the person has to perform a less desirable activity to get to the more desirable activity. Elderly who is anti-social seats in her chair everyday. Staff say that every 2 minutes of interaction with staff will get her 30 mins in her chair. As it happens more frequent, they increase the amount of time it requires to sit for 30 mins.
