[PSYC 302] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (30 pages long)
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Chapter 4: reinforcement, edward lee thorndike, john b. watson, skinner, radical behaviorism. Delay on reinforcement: the longer the latency, the less likely the reinforcement, temporal discounting, longer for reward, lower incentive value, ambiguity. Instead of yelling at them, he rewarded them with a dollar. Thorndike: punish comes with suffering but long term reduction doesn"t occur, true about suffering but not right about long term reduction. Terminology: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, negative punishment. Difficulties for studying punishment: correlation does not imply causation, eron et al found correlation between aggressive punishment by parents and aggressive behavior of children, this may not be true, because naughty kids might just be. = worse punishment giving up: aggression, pain can elicit aggression, also worrying about punishment or pain can also make people become more aggressive. Law - if condition a exists, we predict that event b will occur.
