PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Learning, Habituation
23 Feb 2015
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Either you respond more (sensitization) and focus attention or respond less (habituation) and ignore as a response to a stimuli. Classical conditioning involves forming new reflexive responses, instrumental conditioning involves forming new voluntary behaviours that direct goal-centered actions. Voluntary actions operate on the environment to produce change leading to a specific consequence (instrumental conditioning is also frequently referred to as operating conditioning). Essential to instrumental condition is the association between stimuli and voluntary behaviours that operate to produce certain consequences, a reinforce; anything that increases the probability of the behaviour occurring again. Conclusion: instrumental conditioning is a form of associative learning that requires overt behaviours to be performed for learning to occur and emerged out of the work of skinner and thorndike. Chaining: involves adding on increasingly complex behavioural requirements to the original requirements in order to receive the original reinforcer.
