PSY 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Albert Bandura, Reward System, Observational Learning

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Houck

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Pavlov"s demonstration: psychic reflexes : he was a psychologist, dog thing. Classical conditioning in everyday life: fear and anxiety it can be taught, bridge thing, evaluative conditioning: changes in the liking of a stimulus that result from pairing that stimulus with other positive or negative stimuli. Funny cartoons + energy drink = liking energy drink more. 6. 2 operant conditioning: b. f. skinner, he did shit. Basic processes in operant conditioning: shaping: the reinforcement of closer and closer approximations of a desired response\, resistance to extinction: when an organism continues to make a response after delivery of the reinforcer for it has been terminated. Reinforcement: primary reinforcers: are events that are inherently reinforcing because they satisfy biological needs, secondary (conditioned) reinforcers: events that acquire reinforcing qualities by being associated with primary reinforcers. The interval length varies around a predetermined average: ratio is number, variable is time. Punishment: occurs when an event following a response weakens the tendency to make that response.