PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Contiguity, Radiography

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

When two stimuli (s) occur close together in time. Pavlov believed 2 things about contiguity: for conditioning to occur, us and cs must be contiguous. If any cs and us are paired, conditioning will occur. Challenges to his beliefs: x-rays nausea (7hr delay) solution nausea, thus, this disagrees with pavlov. Generally, it just disagreed with pavlov"s second. Skinner did not discover it, but he did most of the studies: thus he is given credit for it. Generally, it defines if you will or will not repeat an action in the future. Anything that triggers a response: response. Voluntary responses (in your control whether or not you will engage in a certain way, shape and form: consequences. When something pleasant is added to a situation and this increases the probability of the response reoccurring. Sr: pattern/schedule of reinforcement (how often does it occur)