PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Classical Conditioning, Stimulus Control, Operant Conditioning

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYB45H3
• Professor: Zachariah Campbell

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Operant conditions: reinforcement, extinction, punishment and stimulus control. Operant behaviors are controlled by their consequences; operant conditioning involves the manipulation of consequences. In contrast, respondent behaviors are controlled (elicited) by antecedent stimuli, and respondent conditioning involves the manipulation of antecedent stimuli. Unconditioned responses (ur) are elicited by antecedent stimuli even though no conditioning or learning has occurred. A ur occurs in all healthy people when an unconditioned stimulus (us) is presented we say that the us elicits the ur. Respondent conditioning is also called classical conditioning or pavlovian conditioning. The unconditioned stimulus should occur immediately after the onset of the neutral stimulus, so it could become a conditioned stimulus. In trace conditioning the neutral stimulus precedes the unconditioned stimulus, but the neutral stimulus ends before the us is presented (effective) In delay conditioning the neutral stimulus is presented and then the unconditioned stimulus is presented before the ns ends (effective)