PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Operant Conditioning, Animal Cognition, Rat Running
21 Oct 2015
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Skinner box (operant chamber) operant conditioning the future probability of a behavior is affected by its consequences behaviors that lead to favorable outcomes are more likely to be repeated behaviors that lead to unfavorable outcomes are less likely to be repeated three parts a response produces a consequence the consequence either increases or decreases the likelihood the response will occur again there is a discriminative stimulus that precedes the response and signals that a consequence is now available operant behavior pigeon pecks a response key food pellet effect: future probability of key pecking increases dog sits on command gets a biscuit effect: future probability of sitting on command increases child hits her brother scolded effect: future probability of hitting her brother decreases classical vs. operant behaviors classical elicited involuntary inflexible behavior is a function of what comes before it three term contingency:
