PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Biofeedback, Token Economy, Tantrum
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Outline: defining reinforcement, natural and programmed reinforcement, positive and negative reinforcement, unconditioned and conditioned reinforcement, types of positive reinforcers, tangible and consumable reinforcers, activity reinforcers c. Social reinforcers: feedback, tokens, factors that influence the effectiveness of reinforcement, reward value and timing, motivation, negative reinforcement in escape and avoidance, escape and avoidance, problems using escape and avoidance conditioning. Study and review: reinforcement is a process in which consequences strengthen the behaviors on which they are contingent, this rule is true for all types of reinforcement a. i. A reinforcing consequence is called a reinforcer a. i. 1. Natural reinforcers (including automatic reinforcers) occur spontaneously in daily life a. i. 2. Thorndike"s law of effect: satisfying consequences such as rewards or escape from unpleasant consequences strengthen stimulus-response connections gradually in the process of learning. Skinner box: apparatus with a lever that could be depressed for access to food, behavior of depressing lever was reinforced by the food reward.
