PSYC 2660 Lecture 7: Lecture 7

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2660
• Professor: Garry Martin

Document Summary

Beef, all the steps in how to shoot a proper shot in basketball is an example of a behavioural chain: there are a series of simuli and responses. Rule: lead to reinforcers or avoiding punishments, a rule can funcion as a discriminaion simulus. Is a statement that a speciic behaviour will pay of in a paricular situaion. A cue that emiing the behaviour speciied by the rule will lead to the reinforcer ideniied in the rule. Or a cue that is following the rule will lead to a punisher: in some cases, consequences are applied. Can be implied for the sake of geing advice. Can also be implied for the sake of giving a command or threat. Parial rules: rules that do not idenity all the aspects of a reinforcement situaion. Coningency-learned vs rule-governed behaviour: coningency-learned behaviour (clb) Behaviour that has been strengthen or weakened in seings bydirect efects of consequences in those seings.