PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ice Cream Van, Drug Paraphernalia, Token Economy
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Unconditioned reinforcers: stimuli that are reinforcing without prior learning or conditioning: aka. Primary or unlearned reinforcers: examples: food for a hungry person, warmth for someone feeling cold, sexual contact for someone deprived of such contact. Conditioned reinforcers: stimuli that were not originally reinforcing but have become reinforcers by being paired or associated with other reinforcers: aka. Secondary or learned reinforcers: examples: praise, books, pictures of a loved one, stylish clothing, makes up most of the reinforcers that influence us on a daily basis. Backup reinforcers: the other reinforcers that, through deliberate association, made a stimulus become a conditioned reinforcer: example: parent tells child if she does her homework, she gets dessert. The dessert is the backup reinforcer: backup reinforcers for a conditioned reinforcer could also be other conditioned reinforcers. A category of stimuli not commonly recognized as conditioned reinforcers stimuli paired with addictive drugs. Includes smell or taste of substances containing the drug (ex.
