PSYC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Organism, Classical Conditioning, Corporal Punishment
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Psyc 1 textbook notes module 22: operant conditioning. Learning: process of acquiring information/behaviors through experience. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. Stimulus: any event/situation that evokes a response. Respondent behavior: behavior that occurs as automatic response to stimulus. Operant conditioning: behavior is strengthened if followed by reinforcer and diminished if followed by punisher. Operant behavior: behavior that operates on environment, producing consequences. Law of effect: thorndike; behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely. Operant chamber: chamber containing a bar/key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a food/water reinforce; attached devices record animal"s rate of bar pressing/key pecking; also called skinner box. Reinforcement: any event that strengthens the behavior it follows. Shaping: reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of desired behavior. Positive reinforcement: increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers, or any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response.
