PSYC 2000 Chapter : Test Two Material Ch 5 6 7
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Can very depending on the nature of the conditioning task and even the organism. Other conditioned responses in humans: conditioned taste aversion: development of a nausea or aversive response to a particular taste because the taste was followed by a nausea reaction, occurring after only one association. Operant conditioning: operant conditioning: the kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior. The role of punishment in operant conditioning: for behavior we don"t want to occur again. Two kinds of punishment: punishment: the opposite of reinforcement, when followed with a response , causes that response to be less likely to happen again, punishment weakens responses, reinforcement strengthens responses. How to make punishment more effective: punishment should immediately follow the behavior it is meant to punish, punishment should be consistent, punishment of the wrong behavior should be paired, whenever possible, with reinforcement of the right behavior. Other concepts in operant conditioning: operant conditioning is more than just the reinforcement of simple responses.
