PSY 12000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: B. F. Skinner, Clicker Training, Reinforcement
13 Aug 2016
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Psy 120 exam notes (ch. 7 p2) completed study guide. Chapter 7 p2: know the meaning of spontaneous recovery (book) Conditioned responding that has disappeared in extinction recovers spontaneously with the passage of time: what is counter conditioning? (just lecture) Learning in which the consequences of behavior lead to changes in the probability of the behavior"s occurrence. Law of effect: if a response in a particular situation is followed by a satisfying consequence, it will be strengthened. People learn that certain behaviors are rewarded in certain stimulus situations. The discriminative stimulus sets the occasion for a response to be rewarded. Stimulus generalization of a discriminative stimulus doing the behavior in a similar situation expecting a reward. Stimulus discrimination of a discriminative stimulus learning that in different scenarios, the same behavior does not produce a reward: within operant conditioning, be able to define punishment and reinforcement. In addition, know the difference between positive vs negative punishment and positive vs negative reinforcement.
