Psychology 2550A/B Lecture : Behaviourism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: Stephen Erdle

Document Summary

Chapter 13: behaviourism y the learning paradigm: how learning contributes to personality and behaviour change? y looks at external factors in the environment that influence our behaviour. reinforcement is given after a certain time interval. example: your salary being paid every 2 weeks, or giving food to a rat after a certain time while it is pressing a bar: fixed ratio (fr) reinforced after a certain number of responses. example: peace work paid after a certain number of responses/units produced, or for rats it would be pressing the bar a certain number of times before it gets a response: variable interval (vi, variable ratio (vr) reinforced on average after a certain period of time. example: on average you catch a fish every hour, but it is not fixed. reinforced on average after a specific number of responses.