EDPSY 014 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Behaviorism
12 Mar 2014
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Chapter 9: behaviorism and social cognitive theory influenced by stimuli from the environment: behaviorism a theory that explains learning in terms of observable behaviors and how they"re, learning (behaviorism) a relatively enduring change in observable behavior that occurs as a result of, two major components of behaviorism: experience, classical conditioning a component of behaviorism that explains how we learn to display involuntary emotional or physiological instinctive or reflexive responses focuses on emotional and physiological responses to stimuli from the environment ex. Reinforcement schedules patterns in the frequency and predictability of reinforcers that have differential effects on behavior: continuous reinforcement schedule a schedule of reinforcement in which every desired behavior is reinforced, increase behavior most rapidly. Intermittent reinforcement schedule a schedule of reinforcement in which some, but not all, of the desired behaviors are reinforced: results in the most enduring behaviors, ratio schedule an intermittent reinforcement schedule where specific behaviors are reinforced either predictably (fixed) or unpredictably (variable) ex.
