PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Corporal Punishment, Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning

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Learning - the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. Associative learning - learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning). Stimulus - any event or situation that evokes a response. Operant conditioning - a type of learning in which behaviour is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher. Behaviour that operates on the environment to produce rewarding or punishing stimuli. Modern behaviourism"s most influential and controversial figure. Elaborated on edward l thorndike"s law of effect - principle that behaviours followed by favourable consequences become more likely and that behaviours followed by unfavourable consequences become less likely. Skinner using the law of effect revealed principles of behaviour control teaching pigeons to walk in figure 8"s, play ping-pong and keep a missile on course by pecking at a screen target.