PSYC 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Counterintuitive, Reinforcement, David Premack

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 351
• Professor: Stephane Gaskin

Document Summary

S r and s o association have no direct link between the response (r) and the reinforcer or outcome (o) Instigation of instrumental behavior involves more than just these two associations. R o mechanisms predominate in free-operant situations, whereas s r mechanisms are activated when drug taking is a response to drug-related cues. Subject comes to think of the r o association when it encounters s and that motivates it to make the instrumental response. World of behavior in terms of stimuli, responses, and associations. How instrumental conditioning procedures put limitations on an organism"s activities. How instrumental conditioning procedures causes redistributions of behavior among available response options. Reinforcer as a stimuli that produce a satisfying state of affairs. Reinforcers are special stimuli that strengthened instrumental behavior. Many reinforcers, such as food and water, elicit species-typical unconditioned responses, such as chewing, licking, and swallowing. Consummatory-response theory: reinforcement attributed to these species-typical behaviors.