PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Edward Thorndike, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
16 Sep 2016
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How is pavlovian conditioning different from operant conditioning: operant conditioning focuses on behavioral consequences. Organisms associate their own behavior with consequences. Stimuli follows the response and strengthens it: classical conditioning . Thorndike and the law of effect: edward thorndike (1898, placed cats in a puzzle box with a food reward outside the box, he recorded the amount of time that it took them to figure out how to escape. The time required to escape decreased with each trial as they learned what to do: he concluded that rewarded behaviors are likely to recur, which he called the law of effect, law of effect. You are going to do the things you are rewarded for doing and stop doing things that you were punished/not rewarded for doing. The abc"s of operant conditioning: antecedent . The stimulus that comes before the behavioral response has been made: behavior . The behavioral response made by the subject: consequence .
