PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Operant Conditioning, Edward Thorndike
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Elicited responses: automatically or reflexively triggered by the presentation of a stimulus (ex: ss learn to salivate to a bell) Emitted response: behavior that is voluntarily produced by the organism (usually to obtain a goal, ex: working for a paycheck) Doctoral dissertation - animal intelligence: an experimental study of the associative processes in animals. The law of effect: if an action brings a reward, the behavior becomes stamped to the mind. The consequences or effects of behavior determine that behavior"s future occurrence. Action satisfying outcome likely to repeat the actions. Action annoying outcome unlikely to repeat the actions. The cat in the experiment was using mechanical technique, and not actual intelligence. In early trials the cats many random moves to escape from the box through trial and error, the cats learned to more quickly repeated the successful behavior of pushing the lever. Experiment - skinner box: a rat working for food in a skinner box .
