PSY260H1 Lecture Notes - Precommitment, Operant Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber

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Operant conditioning: process whereby organisms learn to make responses in order to obtain or avoid important conseqs: a form of associative learning, like classical. Thorndike"s learning procedures involved discrete trials: discrete trials: operant conditioning paradigm where the experimenter defines the beginning and end of each trial conditioning. B. f. skinner believed he could refine thorndike"s techniques: dif than classical conditioning, since organism interacts w envt. Classical outcome can"t be stopped in operant it can be avoided: aka instrumental conditioning. Skinner box and devised the skinner box to do this: gives animal more control. Skinner box: conditioning chamber where reinforcement/punishment is automatically delivered when an animal makes a response (ex: lever pressing: aka operant chamber. Skinner"s paradigm = free operant paradigm: operant conditioning paradigm where the animal can operate the apparatus freely , responding to obtain reinforcement/avoid punishment, whenever it chooses: commonly called operant conditioning.

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