PSYC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Edward Thorndike, Operant Conditioning

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Mark Lam

Document Summary

Operant conditioning a form of learning in which responses are controlled by their consequences. Law of effect if a response in the presence of a stimulus leas to satisfying effects, the association between the stimulus and the response in strengthened. Reinforcement when an event following a response increases the organism"s tendency to make that response. Positive adding something that strengthens the response. Negative removing something that strengthens the response. Punishment when an event following a response decreases the organism"s tendency to make that response. Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences (reinforcement) of a response. Shaping a process which consists of the reinforcement of closer and closer approximations of a desired response. Extinction gradual weakening disappearance of a response tendency because the response is no longer followed by reinforcement. Resistance to extinction when an organism continues to make a response after the reinforce has been terminated. May be dependent on schedule if reinforcement.