PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Marian Breland Bailey, Learning, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

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Intro: keller breland witnessed the power of a new learning technology, b. f. skinner = famous for shaping rat and pigeon behaviours by delivering well- timed rewards as the animals = closer to a desired behavior. Inspired by skinner"s results, brelands =shaped behavior of cats, chickens, parakeets, turkeys, pigs, ducks, and hamsters: formed animal behavior enterprises and trained animals from 140 for the traveling shows, amusement parks, corporations, and movies, government. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning): 2 main forms: Conditioned = learned; unconditioned = unlearned: he explored five major conditioning processes: acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination. 7. 4 acquisition: acquisition: in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response.