PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Reinforcement
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Rule: verbal statement of a contingency that involves an antecedent, a behaviour, and a consequence. Certain consequence is likely when an individual performs a particular beh under a specific antecedent condition. It is two days before the test if i dont start reading the assignment ill fail this rule describes punishment as the consequence of not reading and a good way to avoid the event (by reading) Respond in accordance with specified contingencies about unpleasant consequences and avoid actually experiencing the unpleasantness. They can react appropriately to sit even though they never experienced the threatening consequence. Rule governed beh: an action that carries out or is controlled by a prescription given in a stated rule. How rule governs behaviour for performing the prescribed behaviour. Usually rule is a discriminative stimulus and serves as an antecedent : thinking of or being told the rule sets the occasion.
