PS261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Operant Conditioning Chamber, New Taiwan Dollar, Self-Control
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Chapter 6 schedules of reinforcement and choice behaviour. Achieving that goal often requires adjusting the schedule of reinforcement to produce the desired outcome: schedules of reinforcement influence both how an instrumental response is learned and how it is then maintained by reinforcement. Highly relevant to the motivation of behavior. In simple schedules, a single factor determines which occurrence of the instrumental response is reinforced: intermittent reinforcement: delivers reinforcement for some responses, ratio schedules, reinforcement depends on the number of responses the organism has perform. Fixed ratio between the number of responses the rat made and the number of reinforcers it got: delivers reinforcement after every nth response. A continuous reinforcement schedule is also a fixed-ratio schedule: delivers reinforcement for every occurrence of the response. Variable-ratio schedule: average number of responses required per reinforcer, delivers reinforcement after a variable number of responses, steady rate of responding and no predictable pauses.
