PSYCO282 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Certified Emission Reduction

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Process of respondent conditioning can develop css for positive cers or negative. Little albert is a case of a negative cer: positive cers involve feelings of love and happiness, negative cers involve feelings of fear and dislike. Conditioned compensatory responses and drug tolerance: conditioned response counteracts the e ect of the drug, requires increased drug amounts to achieve desired drug e ect, administration of drug without css to generate the compensatory cr can prove fatal. Variations are selected: become more or less probable based on how well they work, behavior is changed by experience in the environment. Di erential reinforcement of successive approximations of a target behavior: training a rat"s lever press, reinforce approaches to lever, reinforce sni ng the level, reinforce touching with paw, reinforce a full depression of the lever. Marking the behavior by using clickers so that an immediate conditionally reinforcing consequence is provided: aids learning by providing immediate reinforcement, prevents accidental reinforcement of other behaviors.