PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 43: Operant Conditioning, Edward Thorndike, Operant Conditioning Chamber
17 Dec 2018
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It is one thing to classically condition a dog to salivate or a child to fear moving cards. To teach an elephant to learn to walk on its hind legs and a child to say please, one turns to operant conditioning. Operant and classical conditioning are both forms of associative learning different: , however they are: classical forms associations between stimuli and the unconditioned stimulus its signals. It involves respondent behavior (actions that are automatic responses to a stimulus: operant conditioning for organisms that associate their own actions with consequences. Skinner was a college english major who entered psychology graduate school. His work elaborated on what edward thorndike called the law of effect recur and punished behavior is less likely to recur. Skinner created a behavioral tech that showed principles of behavior control. : rewarded behavior is likely to: shaping behavior, shaping behavior toward closer and closer approx of the desired behavior.
