PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Contiguity, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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More or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that is based on experience. Describe how behaviours are acquired and extinguished through classical conditioning. Describe the basic principles of stimulus generalization and discrimination. The diminishing of a physiological or emotional response to a frequently repeated stimulus. Eating less during a meal is usually interpreted as reaching satiety or getting full, but experiments suggest that habituation also plays an important role. Contrast contiguity and contingency, and describe the importance of these for conditioning to occur. Contiguity: a continuous series of frequent pairings. Classical conditioning requires that the cs and us occur close together in time. Contingency: the degree to which the occurrence of some event (us) is predicted by another event (cs) For conditioning to occur, both contiguity and contingency are necessary. Describe how behaviours are acquired and extinguished though operant conditioning. Discriminate among positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment and negative punishment.