PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Reinforcement, Verbal Behavior
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Chapter 14 establishing behaviour by escape and avoidance conditioning. Escape conditioning: removal of aversive stimuli immediately after a response occurs. Leads to an increase of that response (aka negative reinforcement). Try to stop or escape : e. g. dog jumping out of an area w/ electric shock, giving into a child"s needs to get them to stop crying. Escape conditioning versus punishment: both use aversive stimuli, timing of aversive stimuli is different. Escape: aversive stimulus presented before the escape response (removal of consequence) Punishment: aversive stimulus presented after the undesirable response (introduction of consequence: punisher decrease behaviour; escape increases behaviour. Avoidance conditioning: increasing response to preventing the aversive stimulus from happening at all. E. g. dog will leave the area with electric shock to avoid the stimulus entirely. Discriminated avoidance conditioning: includes a warning signal that the aversive stimulus is coming; the warning signal becomes a conditioned punisher.
