PSYC 1000 Chapter 6.2: PSYC*1000 - 6.2

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Despite psychologist and government official"s efforts, gambling problems in canada. Reinforcement plays a role in these behaviours and the reward that sometimes follows gambling encourages addicts to continue playing. Behaviours are not random and individuals normally repeat actions that end in reward. Operant conditioning: a type of learning in which behavior is influenced by consequences. Operant conditioning involves voluntary actions such as speaking or listening, moving towards or away from an object. Classical conditioning response does not require a reward, the pavlov dog learned the association between tone and the food by learning, not by actually doing anything. Contingency: a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty. Consequence depends upon an action (earning good grades is generally contingent upon studying effectively) Reinforcement: a process in which an event or reward that follows a response increases the likelihood of that response occurring again.