PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Equivalence Class, Stimulus Control, Little Albert Experiment
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Chapter 9: responding at the right time and place: stimulus discrimination and stimulus. How do we learn to perform certain behaviour at certain times and in certain places: cues (stimuli) play a central role. Stimulus control: the degree of correlation between a stimulus and a subsequent response: high correlation = good/effective stimulus control, when the stimulus is present, the behaviour is likely to happen. Stimulus discrimination: the process by which we learn to emit a specific behaviour in the presence of certain stimuli and not in the presence of other stimuli: this is taught via stimulus discrimination training. Controlling stimuli: stimuli that exert control over a behaviour: two types: Sd - discriminative stimulus for reinforcement: when present, the target behaviour will be reinforced. S - discriminative stimulus for extinction: when present, the target behaviour will not be reinforced. The same stimulus can simultaneously be an sd for one behaviour and an s for another.
