PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Gambian Pouched Rat, Reward System, Reinforcement Learning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Teaching a dog to salivate at the sound of a tone (classical conditioning) Teaching an elephant to walk on its hind legs (operant conditioning: both are forms of associative learning, classical conditioning forms associations between stimuli (a conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus, it signals). Involves respondent behaviour actions that are automatic responses to a stimulus: operant conditioning organisms associate their own actions with consequences. Actions followed by reinforcers increase; those followed by punishers decrease. Behaviour that operates on the environment to produce rewarding or punishing stimuli is called operant behaviour. With classical condition, we learn associations between events we do not control. With operant conditioning, we learn associations between our behaviour and resulting events. Thorndike used a fish reward to entice cats to find their way out of a puzzle box through a series of manoeuvres.