PS261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Learned Helplessness, Belongingness, Controllability
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Investigations of instrumental conditioning: thorndike"s training procedure consisted of placing a hungry animal in the puzzle box with some food left outside in plain view of the animal. The task for the animal was to learn how to get out of the box and obtain the food: the cat took 160 sec to get out of box aon the first trial. If the response is followed by an annoying event, the. S-r association is weakened: the satisfying and annoying consequence simply servers to strengthen or weaken the association between the preceding stimulus and response, tolman viewed behavior as a flexible means to a goal, proposed idea of cognitive maps. Animals learn s-s associations rather than s-r: eg. In plus maze, easier for rats to learn about places than about response: latent learning learning occurred. Shows that reinforcement isn"t necessary for learning; it just gives a reason to show that: eg.
