PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mirror Neuron, Frontal Lobe, Motivation
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Partial reinforcement: behaviors that we reinforce occasionally are slower to extinguish than those we reinforce continuously. Schedules of reinforcement = pattern of reinforcing behavior. Shaping by successive reinforcement: behaviors being reinforced are not the target behavior, but progressively closer. Skinner was a radical behaviorist classical conditioning. Thinking, emotion and observable behaviors are all dictated by operant and. Focus on how organisms interpret the stimulus before generating a response. Behavior is not automatic or inflexible; classical and operant cr usually depend on thinking. Evidence of cognitive processes involved in learning. Development of cognitive map in rats latent learning. Learning doesn"t have to involve reinforcement, occurs but not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it. Sometimes excessive rewards destruct intrinsic motivation to learn something. A desire to perform behavior effectively for its own sake. Extrinsic motivation: desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment.