PSYCO381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Operant Conditioning, Ethology
4 Dec 2018
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He devised a series of puzzle boxes for his experiments. His training procedure consisted of placing a hungry animal (often a young cat) in the puzzle box with some food left outside in plain view of the animal. The task for the animal was to learn how to get out of the box and get the food. In box a, the required response was to pull a ring to release a latch that blocked the door on the outside. In box i, the required response was to push down a lever, which released a latch. Founder of instrumental condition is thorndike: measure latency to escape, reduce each time they put the cat in the puzzle box. Free-operant (skinner): : a method of instrumental conditioning that permits repeated performance of the instrumental response without intervention by the experimenter. (compare with discrete-trial procedure. )standard tasks for examining instrumental behaviour: discrete trial procedure.
