PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Swear Jar, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Reinforcement
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You want to quit smoking, so you sit at home and give yourself a shock every time you reach for a cigarette. However, when you go out with your friends, your smoking return to the same level. This is an example of __: stimulus discrimination. Stimulus discrimination occurs when an organism learns to respond to one original stimulus but not to new stimuli that may be similar to the original stimulus: john"s family has a swear jar". Every time someone in the family swears, she or he has to put a dollar in the jar. This is an example of ___: operant conditioning, operant conditioning is a type of learning in which behaviour is influence by consequences. In this specific example, family members swearing behaviours influence (or decreased) by taking away money. Specifically, this is an example of negative punishment.
