PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Matching Law, Operant Conditioning, Optimal Foraging Theory
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Skinner box small enclosure in which an animal can make a specific response that is recorded while the consequences of the response are systematically controlled. Operant responses tend to be voluntary, so they are emitted. Reinforcement contingencies the circumstances or rules that determine whether responses lead to the presentation of reinforcers: experimenter changes whether positive consequences occur when the animal makes the designated response. Reinforcement occurs whenever an outcome strengthens a response, as measured by an increase in the rate of responding. Delayed reinforcement favorable outcome is more likely to strengthen a response if the outcome follows immediately. Primary reinforcers events that are inherently reinforcing because they satisfy bio needs. i. e. food, sex, water, warmth. Secondary/conditioned reinforcers events that acquire reinforcing qualities by being associated with primary reinforcers. Schedule of reinforcement determines which occurrences of a specific response result in presentation of a reinforce. Continuous reinforcement when every instance of a designated response is reinforced.
