PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Habituation
5 Dec 2014
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* this greatly expands the range of situations to which classical conditioning applies. Learning about the consequences of behaviour: instrumental conditioning (1) define instrumental conditioning and the law of effect . (2) explain b. f. skinner"s radical behaviourism (3) explain what is meant by the term discriminative stimulus. (4) outline the concept of reinforcement, both positive and negative. (5) discuss how different schedules of reinforcement affect behaviour. (6) explain how complex behaviours can be acquired through shaping. (7) define punishment, both positive and negative. If an individual"s behaviour in a certain situation is followed by a satisfying, or pleasant experience, then it will be more likely to occur again when that individual is in that situation. * aimed to make psychology into the science of behaviourism. * negative reinforcement something that stops following behaviour, which increases the likelihood of that behaviour in future. Conditioned reinforcers: not all reinforcers are intrinsically positive or negative.
