PSYCH-AD 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Corporal Punishment, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reinforcement
10 Dec 2017
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Learning the process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviours. Associative learning learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as classical conditioning) Stimulus any event or situation that evokes a response. Thorndik"s principle that behaviours followed by favourable consequences become more likely, and that behaviours followed by unfavourable consequences become less likely. operant chamber. In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behaviour it follows. An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behaviour toward closer and closer approximations of the desire behaviour. A positive reinforcement is any stimulus that, when presented after a response strengthens that response (adding) Increasing behaviours by stopping or reducing negative stimuli. A negative reinforcer is any the response. (it does not have to be punishment) (removing) An innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satis es a biological need.
