PSYC 2440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stimulus Control, Equivalence Class, Reinforcement

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2440
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Psych 2440 behavior modification principles lecture 9 - chapter 9. Chapter 9 responding at the right time and place: stimulus discrimination and stimulus. Any behavior is valuable only if it occurs at the right times and in appropriate situations. After several trials, the people and things around the individual during reinforcement and extinction come to cue the behavior. Three sets of events that can be analyzed: antecedent stimuli the stimuli that exist just prior to the occurrence of the behavior, the behavior itself, consequences of the behavior. Any stimulus can be the antecedent or the consequence of the behavior. When a behavior is reinforced in the presence of a particular stimulus but not others: that antecedent stimulus begins to exert control over the occurrence of that behavior. When a particular behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of a particular stimulus but not others: the behavior is under the control of the stimulus.