PSYC1024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Edward Thorndike, Operant Conditioning, Educational Psychology
2 Jan 2019
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Operant conditioning is a process whereby the behavioural response that is followed more or less likely to occur on subsequent occasions. E. g. if you go to a bar and meet a nice person, you are more likely to go back to. More e. g. a child misbehaves may be punished by the parent and the child that behaviour in the future. Some have argued that operant conditioning is just many chai. To conceptualize the differences in one significant way. When you think about classical conditioning think about automatic associations some cases subconsciously, elicit a response) When you think about operant conditioning think about voluntary responses wh reward or punishment. E. g. getting sick at a restaurant in classical conditioning, you will avoid would avoid the restaurant altogether. Edward thorndike was one of the first psychologists to study operant conditioning. He was born in the us, in williamsburg ma (1874-1949) He was interested in studying animal behaviour and how they go about learning.
