Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Snail Mail, Video Poker, Cognitive Map

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-de Hoog

Document Summary

Escape conditioning: learn a response to terminate an aversive stimulus: acquired and maintained through negative reinforcement, ex. taking advil is negatively reinforced by the reduction of headache pain. Avoidance conditioning: learn a response to prevent the aversive stimulus from ever happening in the first place: ex. Putting on a coat before you go outside in cold weather. Two-factor theory of avoidance learning: association learned through classical conditioning, and maintained through operant conditioning (especially negative reinforcement: ex. Sam take a turbulent flight and fear becomes paired with flying sam doesn(cid:495)t fly to minimize anxiety. Shaping: reinforces successive approximations of the desired behaviour. Shaping your dog to shake a paw: dog sits, dog sits then moves paw, dogs sits then raises paw to chest height, dog sits and places paw in your hand. Chaining: reinforce each behaviour in a sequence, with the opportunity to produce the next response in the chain.