PSY 124 Midterm: Chapter 6

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 124
• Professor: Leo Michelis

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Operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning: you are largely (almost totally) shaped by the world you live in, the people around you, the structure we have as a society. All this stuff has operated and conditioned us, influenced how we behave. Learning controlled by the consequences of the organisms behaviour. The cat knows what to do to get out it learned, through trial and error: definition: a behaviour which is followed by a desirable outcome is more likely to occur again. Skinner and oc (operant conditioning: bf skinner- totally focused on the environmental, did not like our emotional state because you can"t see inside our mind , he believed freud was wrong. Position reinforcement: the presentation of a stimulus (what we usually think of as a pleasant stimulus) following a behaviour that strengthens the probability of the behaviour. Giving a gold star on homework, resulting in a student study more. Static on phone subsides when you stand in a.