PS261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Reinforcement Learning, Reinforcement, B. F. Skinner
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In instrumental behaviour, responding is necessary to produce a desired environmental outcome the behaviour will occur as similar actions produced the same type of outcome in the past. Ex. student can earn better grades by studying harder, turning the key in the ignition to start the car. Instrumental behaviour: an activity that occurs because it is effective in producing a particular consequence or reinforcer. As the association between the box cues and the successful response became stronger, the animal came to make that response more quickly; consequence of successful response, strengthened the association between the box stimuli and that response. Modern approaches to the study of instrumental conditioning. As more scientists have become involved in instrumental learning, the range of tasks that they use has become smaller a few of these have become standard and have been used repeatedly to facilitate comparison of results obtained in different laboratories.