PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Stimulus Control, The Fading, Classical Conditioning
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Chapter 10 changing the stimulus control of a behavior w/ fading (psyb45) Ex) child would only say its name after someone says peter (antecedent stimulus), through fading the antecedent stimulus shifts another antecedent stimulus which is. Fading happens in everyday lives when someone teaches a behavior to another. Usually works with parents when helping the child to walk or to ride a bike. People needed t learn from mistakes but now b/c errorless transfer of a discrimination can occur and it has 3 advantages from trail & error. Tracing heavy dots and then make them trace assisting child"s hand and fade away the control of hand and make them do it by themselves. Then the heavy dots will fade away and bring in light dots for tracing. Dimensions of a stimuli for fading fading occurs along dimensions of stimuli (ex. loudness, pressure) Dimensions of stimulus is any characteristic that can be measured on some continuum.
