PSYC 460 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning
25 Oct 2017
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I. e. going to a party with friends, going ice skating: extrinsic reinforcement = reinforcement provided by some consequence that is external to the behavior. I. e. good grades, new clothes, a nice car: shaping = the gradual creation of new behavior through reinforcement of successive approximations to that behavior. I. e. earning for every 3 dresses hemmed. Produced a high rate of response with a post-reinforcement pause after each reinforcer: stimulus control = a situation in which the presence of a discriminative stimulus reliably affects the probability of a behavior. I. e. picking up a phone that is ringing, but not one that isn"t ringing: fixed interval schedule = intermittent schedule in which reinforcement is contingent upon the first response after a fixed, predictable period of time. Produces moderate, steady rate of response with little/no post-reinforcement pause: variable ratio schedule = intermittent schedule in which reinforcement is contingent upon a varying, unpredictable number of responses.
