PSCH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning
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In each of the following descriptions of learning situations, you are asked to identify whether classical or operant conditioning best applies. Further, you are asked to determine what learning principle(s) seem relevant. If you decide the situation seems to be an example of classical conditioning, you should label the ucs (unconditioned stimulus), Ucr (unconditioned response), cs (conditioned stimulus), and cr (conditioned response). If you decide the situation seems to be an example of operant conditioning, you should decide which of the following principles best fits: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, negative punishment. A very bright (mildly painful) light is turned on a rat. The rat has learned that he can turn off the light by pressing a lever on the other site of his cage. Answer: operant b. negative reinforcement because by the response removes the stimulus (the painful light). When a mother strokes her infant"s skin, the stroking creates pleasure responses in the baby.
