PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Classical Conditioning, Stimulus Control
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Conditional discriminations, stimulus discrimination- acquisition stimulus discrimination can be broadly defined a: restricting the range of stimuli that evoke a particular behavior, stimulus discrimination and restricting or narrowing stimulus control. The effectiveness of discriminative stimuli derives from: a learner"s history of reinforcement, punishment, and/or extinction when those stimuli have been present, discrimination training involves the manipulation of antecedents and consequences. A game leader gives an instruction, the players respond according to instructions and their responses are reinforced only if the statement simon says perceive that instruction. The fourth term in this contingency i: the statement simon says . A pigeon pecking of a red key is reinforced with food only when the chamber lights are on. When the chamber lights are off, only packing on a green key produces food. The green key is: an sd when the chamber lights are off and an s-delta when they are on. The effectiveness of discriminative stimuli derives from: differential reinforcement.
