PSYC 301 Chapter 9: Chapter 9- The Principles of Learning and Behaviour (animal learning)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 301
• Professor: anne almey

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Acquisition of conditioned behaviour involves procedures in which a reinforcing outcome occurs. In pavlovian conditioning, the outcome or us is presented as a consequence of a. In instrumental conditioning, the reinforcing outcome is a consequence of the instrumental response. Classical conditioning: reinforcement involves repeated presentations of the cs without the us. Instrumental conditioning: extinction involves no longer presenting the reinforcer when the response occurs. The behaviour change that occurs in extinction is the reverse of what was observed in acquisition. This is how the rescorla wagner model characterizes extinction. The loss of conditioned behaviour that occurs as a result of extinction is not the. Same as the loss of responding that occurs because of forgetting. Extinction is an active process produced by the omission of an expected. Forgetting is a decline in responding that occurs because of the passage of time and does not require nonreinforcement of the cs or the instrumental response.