PSY 393 Study Guide - Final Guide: Behavioral Engineering, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 393
• Professor: Jorgensen

Document Summary

Mental events that can elicit, reinforce or punish behavior. External events represented symbolically: verbal and imaginal representations guide future events. Reinforcement must be consciously perceived to be effective. Personal learning history shapes expectations linking contexts (situational stimuli) leading to punishment or reinforcement. Stimulus response theory (s-r: cues and responses more remote in time are not reinforced as strongly as stimuli near the reinforcer of the s-r chain, learning = strengthening or weakening of s-r links. Learning may occur via: reinforcement, punishment imitation (social learning, response occurrence may depend on: 1 the intensity or quality of a single stimulus the behavior being motivated by more than one drive. A pattern of cues the strength of the drive. Know skinner"s position of environmental control of operant behavior: organism emits a response to operate on the environment, environmental consequence strengthens or weakens the response, operant= response learned through operant conditioning.