PSYB45H3 Chapter 9: Chapter 9.docx
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Traditional views: process that initiates, directs and maintains physical and psychological activities. Drives unconditioned & biologically based (hunger: 2. Motives partly learned & psychologically/ socially based (desire for money) Lowest stage= no interest & highest= completed change & working to maintain (intermediate stage= preparation made commitment to modify behv) Establishing operation increases the effectiveness of a reinforcer or punisher (value-altering) & lead to corresponding changes in behv (behv-altering effect: 2. Abolishing operation decrease effectiveness of a reinforcer or punisher (can be value altering or behv-altering) two types of behv-alt effect: 1. Changed so that tasks not repeated which led to lower aggression (ao) Establishing and abolishing operations for punishment: pain aversive stimuli, serve as punishers. Deprivation and satiation: greater the deprivation, more effective the reinforcer in strengthening behaviour, study of eos adults w/ retardation, procedures in creating eos, 1. Food reinforcement testing 30 mins before scheduled lunch time: 2.
