PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Human Behavior, Empiricism
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Philosophical roots empiricism: everything we know comes from our experience, structure of reality determines the structure of the mind, imprints itself onto mind, locke, the newborn mind is tabula rasa blank slate, ready to be written upon by experience. Life writes itself on our tablet: conceptualization of knowledge as including simple associations between small facts leads to the research strategy called reductionism, understand a large phenomenon by breaking it down into small constituent parts, ex. Pill takes away something negative: operant conditioning procedures, positive reinforcement results when a pleasant stimulus is present, Dog turned over trash, you punish when come home You have to do it consistently immediately after the behavior\ Timing and consistency: to be effective, punishment must be applied immediately after the behavior that is to be prevented, every time it occurs, otherwise, one might not understand which behavior is being punished. Conditioning secondary punishing stimuli: verbal techniques may work as well as other types of punishment ex.
