PSYCO381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Edward Thorndike, Psych, Phase 2
4 Dec 2018
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Train dogs to use touch screen, they could train, teach an old dog new tricks. Found that they could train old dogs suing operant condition: they could train dogs to discriminate stimuli, rewarded and punished. Two approaches: associative structure of instrumental conditioning. Broad approach: more functional perspective of why the animal perform this behaviour. The expectancy of reward and the s-o association: exactly how the s o association comes to motivate instrumental behavior has been the subject of considerable debate and experimental investigation. More than just a response and reinforcer: stimulus context(s) = light on, instrumental response(r) = go to the feeder, response outcome(o) =yum. The three terms (s, r and o) allow for many different types of associations to be formed the idea of the outcome will stamped in this response is made when you are in a certain context in the environment. Thorndike thought that the s-r association was key to instrumental conditioning.
