PSYC 3451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ontogeny, The Delay, Reinforcement

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3451
• Professor: Bright Terri

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Week 3 lecture 6: learning principles and behavior analysis. Defining reinforcement: 3 important qualifications: the delay between the response and the onset of the consequence. Stimulus conditions in effect when the response was emitted. Strength of the current motivation with respect to the consequence. Temporal relations between behavior and its consequences that are on the order of a few ________. Unconditioned reinforcement: unconditioned reinforcer (primary): a stimulus change that functions as reinforcement even though the learner has had no particular learning history with it. Initially neutral stimuli that have acquired reinforcing capability because of being paired with primary reinforcers or established secondary reinforcers: requires stimulus-stimulus pairing (ns + us) Generalized conditioned reinforcement: a conditioned reinforcer that as a result of having been paired with many unconditioned and conditioned reinforcers does not depend upon a current eo (establishing operation) for any particular form of reinforcement for its effectiveness.