PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Puzzle Box, Classical Conditioning, Gift Card
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Classical conditioning: organisms learn the contingencies between biologically important stimuli. Can occur in the absence of overt training: presenting together two biologically important stimuli leads to the association. Instrumental conditioning: involves explicit training between voluntary behaviours and their consequences. The learning of a contingency between behaviour and consequence: if you touch a hot stove, you will get burned, if you misbehave, you"ll be put on time out. Specific behaviour leads to specific consequences: all about learning the contingency between behaviours and their consequences. Early theorists trying to understand the connection between behaviour and consequences: appealed to mental processes which could not be measured, interested in how instrumental conditioning guides human behaviour. Early work done in experiments done on animal subjects. Outside the box was a small dish of food that provided motivation for the cat to escape. At first, the hungry cat would engage in random behaviour as they tried to escape.
