PSYC 109W Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning Chamber
9 Dec 2012
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Learning- relatively permanent change in an organism"s behaviour due to experience. We learn by association: our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence, aristotle 2000 years ago, john locke and david hume 200 years ago. Associative learning: learning that two events occur together. Learn to associate a response and its consequence. John b. watson: viewed psychology as objective science. Generally agreed-upon consensus today: recommended study of behaviour without reference to unobservable mental processes. Not universally accepted by all schools of thought today. Type of learning in which behaviour is strengthened if followed by reinforcement or diminished if followed by punishment. Thorndike"s principle that behaviours followed by favourable consequences become more likely, and behaviours followed by unfavourable consequences become less likely. Occurs as an automatic response to stimulus. Behaviour learned through classical conditioning: f. skinner (1904-1990) Chamber with a bar or key that an animal manipulates to obtain a food or water reinforce.
