PSY 3103 Chapter 3: Operant Conditioning
5 Oct 2015
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Operating: operate: to perform a function and produce an effect, ex: surgeons perform medical functions and produce healing effects, thoughts, words, gestures, and all other forms of action are useful in operating on our environment. Instrumental behaviour is usually oriented toward creating rewarding outcomes and avoiding aversive ones. Law of effect: law of effect: based on observation that voluntary behaviour is influenced by its effects. Operant conditioning: three main components of oc are abc: antecedent cues, behaviour and consequences. A piano coach will then choose strategies that have produced good effects in the past (reinforces), and abandon strategies that produced bad effects (punishers: we respond to good and bad c, adjusting our behaviour accordingly; usually subconsciously. At a banquet, you might overlook that he"s drunk and approach him and congratulate him, but if he"s on the street you might avoid him.
