psy290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Quiz, Gift Card, Edward Thorndike

• School: Athabasca University
• Department: general science
• Course: psy290
• Professor: yasser

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Unit 1:instrumental conditioning: the learning of a contingency behaviour and consequence. Early research on instrumental conditioning was often performed on non-human animals. Edward thorndike: cat in box experiment: conclusion= cat pull the string by accident the first time, but each following time the cats performance only improved a little bit. Therfore: the graph indicates a decreasing number of behaviours in relation to the number of increasing successful trials. This suggested that animals followed a simple stimulus-response type process with little (cid:272)(cid:396)edit fo(cid:396) (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess the (cid:272)ats (cid:449)o(cid:396)k f(cid:396)o(cid:373) a p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess of lo(cid:374)g t(cid:396)ial and error process of discovery. The law of effect: -behaviours with positive consequences are stamped in. Tamping in: behaviours resulti(cid:374)g i(cid:374) a desira(cid:271)le effe(cid:272)t are (cid:862)sta(cid:373)ped i(cid:374)(cid:863) An important point to keep in mind: for any type of instrumental conditioning, is that it proceeds best when the consequence immediately follows the response. Q:ex mike wants to increase on-time arrival behaviours in his class.