FRHD 3150 Lecture Notes - Seat Belt, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Punishment (eliminating behaviour) (must occur immediately after a behaviour: positive punishment. Aversive stimuli (stimulus whose presentation immediately after a behaviour causes that behaviour to decrease in frequency) Immediate consequences of touching a hot stove: negative punishment. Removing a reward: a punishment is for decreasing a behaviour, deterrent: sending a person to prison (not immediate) Reinforcement and punishment: positive reinforcement= reward, negative reinforcement= removing aversive, positive punishment= aversive stimuli, negative punishment= removing reward. Understanding the terms: reinforcements increase the likeliness that a behaviour will increase, punishments increase the likelihood that a behaviour will decrease, negative is the absence of a stimuli, positive is the presence of a stimuli, ask yourself: Indirect acting effect (noted immediately but given after a delay); ie. person is caught on camera speeding through an intersection and gets a ticket in the mail a week later. Four types of punishments: pain-inducing punishers. Involve pain or discomfort (could just be uncomfortable) Unconditioned punishers: are punishing without prior learning.