PSYB38 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Edward Thorndike, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Edward thorndike > first used, why do we do the things we do, consequences, stimuli etc. Leaning and memory works with behaviour modification a lot. Reinforcement: where a behaviour can be strengthened if the consequence is positive, ending up good in result and the behaviour is reinforced. Extinction: continue to do the behaviour and no longer get the consequences then the behaviour will diminish eventually. Punishment: you engage in negative consequence you are less likely to do it again. Discrimination: discriminate between two similar stimuli, look the same different colours for example traffic light. Generalization: applying the stimuli to another stimuli, if you see a wolf you should run away etc you apply that understanding to other similar objects. Respondent conditioning: meaning the stimuli response condition, the more often they both occur the stranger they become. Key element is having perceive definitions of behaviour. Overt (visible) > observed and recorded by someone other than the one performing the behaviour.
