PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-14: Dras, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning
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Week 6 june 8 th , 2015. Differential reinforcement schedules (or procedures): are schedules that reinforce specific rates of responding: they may be used to reinforce high or low response rates, procedures that can be used to increase and maintain operant behavior include: Positive reinforcement, shaping, fading, chaining, stimulus discrimination training, generalization, and those in chapter 8: procedures that can be used to decrease operant behavior include: Operant extinction, punishment, the antecedent control procedures, and differential reinforcement procedures. E. g. , tommy not talking out in class. Useful when two conditions hold: (a) (b) Some of the behavior is not tolerable but. Useful when the behavior to be reduced is actually desirable provided that it does not occur at too high a rate. E. g. , a student who always calls out the correct answer deprives classmates of the chance to respond to the teacher"s questions. However, you don"t wish to eliminate the student"s correct answering.
