PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.2: Observational Learning, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Learning occurs because responses come to be influenced by the outcomes that follow them. Operant conditioning a form of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their consequences (aka instrumental learning) Law of effect a response in the presence of a stimulus leads to satisfying effects, the association between the stimulus and the response is strengthened. Mechanical process in which successful responses are gradually stamped in by their favourite effects. Skinner"s demonstration: it"s all a matter of consequences. Fundamental principle organisms tend to repeat those responses that are followed by favourable consequences. Reinforcement an event following a response increases an organism"s tendency to make that response. Operant chamber/ skinner box small enclosure in which an animal can make specific responses that is recorded while the consequences of the response are systematically controlled. Operant responses tend to be voluntary, they are said to be emitted rather than elevated.