PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Puzzle Box, Edward Thorndike, Reinforcement
7 Jan 2018
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Instrumental conditioning: the learning of a contingency between behaviour and consequence (ex. Proceeds best when the consequence immediately follows the response. Measured the time it took the cat to learn to open the door by pulling the string. Put the focus on overt behaviour rather than on mental elements. Puzzle box was a small chamber with a door that could be opened by performing. Outside the box was a dish of food used as motivation for the cat to escape. Predicted that the cat would first engage in random behaviour as they tried to. Trials following the discovery of the correct solution would lead to a dramatic step. Discovered that the frequency of random behaviours gradually decreased over. Suggested that animals followed a simple stimulus-response type process (long. Stamping in/out: a process which determines whether a behaviour was trial-and-error process of discovery) unlike humans down in time to escape maintained or eliminated (ex.
