PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Fear and other emotional responses are stimulated by conditions. Even a single condition could alter our emotional response . Addiction comes from the way you do the drugs, the rituals the persons you do it with, and the places you do it. When we ate the powder but the last time he rang it and we didn"t eat it this is because. Of classicak coditioni or maybe generaltization of stimulus. Bf skinner: people tend to repeat those responses that are followed by favorable consequences. Reinforcement occurs when an event following a response increases an organism"s tendency to make that response. Skinner box :dependent variable is response rate. (how often the behavior happens), it is measured using a slope. A rapid response rate produces a steep slope. For example, not rewarding child every time they do homework but rather at the end of the week reward them. Fixed ratio: everytime you make 10 pajama tops i"ll give you 20 dollars.