PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
11 Apr 2013
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Chapter ten aversive control: avoidance and punishment. Avoidance procedures increase the occurrence of instrumental behaviour, whereas punishment procedures. Avoidance procedure: the individual has to make a specific response to prevent an aversive stimulus from occurring. Involves a negative contingency between an instrumental response and the aversive stimulus. If the response occurs, the aversive stimulus is omitted. Putting your hand on a railing to avoid slipping. Punishment: involves a positive contingency: the target response produces the aversive outcome. If you touch a hot stove, you will get burned! Sometimes referred to as passive avoidance suppress instrumental responding. First conducted by vladimir bechterev: interested in studying associative learning in human subjects they were exposed to us (shock) Investigators have been concerned with the importance of the warning signal in avoidance procedures and the relation of such warning signals to the us and the instrumental response. Discriminated, or signaled avoidance: involves discrete trials, each trial is initiated by the warning stimulus (cs).
