PSYCH-220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
28 Oct 2020
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Continuous is reinforcing the behavior every time it happens. Partial reinforcement helps to maintain the behavior change. With punishment, people just try to avoid getting caught. May cause aggression or them punishing themselves. Used the reinforcement schedules with animals in a controlled lab setting. Variable ratio is the most resistant to extinction (like a slot machine or gambling device) Then fixed ratio: you get a fast and regular response rate. Then variable interval: slow and steady response rate. Then fixed interval: results in a choppy stop and start pattern; animal becomes accustomed to the gap in time, so once they get rewarded they know it will be a while so they stop. Ratio-scheduled behaviors are extinguished slower than interval-scheduled ones. We don"t have free will because the environment and the consequences of our behavior make us act in certain ways. If the environment is the cause of our behavior, then we ourselves are not the cause of our behavior.
