PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Token Economy, Reinforcement
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Chapter 5 increasing behaviour with conditioned reinforcement. Unconditioned reinforcers (primary/unlearned reinforcers) stimuli that are reinforcing without prior learning or conditioning: examples: food for a hungry person, water for a thirsty person, warmth for someone who is cold. Conditioned reinforcers (secondary/learned reinforcers) stimuli that were not originally reinforcing but have become reinforcers by being paired or associated with other reinforcers: example: praise, a picture of a loved ones, books that we like to read. Backup reinforcers when a stimulus becomes a conditioned reinforce through deliberate association with other reinforcers: example: the type of training conducted with dolphins (the fish) Tokens conditioned reinforcers that can be accumulated and exchanged for backup reinforcers. Simple conditioned reinforcer a conditioned reinforce that is paired with a single backup reinforcer: exa(cid:373)ple: the sou(cid:374)d of the i(cid:272)e (cid:272)rea(cid:373) (cid:448)e(cid:374)dor"s (cid:271)ell. Generalized conditioned reinforcer a stimulus that is paired with more than one kind of backup reinforcer: example: praise.
