PSYC 2000 Chapter : Learning
Document Summary
Shaping: operant conditioning, which guides behavior towards the target behavior (goal) Punishment: any event following a response that decreases the future probability of that response occurring (weakens the behavior it follows: positive punishment: spanking. Want to reduce behavior from happening again: negative punishment: time out from privileges. Withdraw desired stimulus: reinforcement= strengthens behavior, punishment= weakening behavior, positive= adding something, negative= taking it away. Classical conditioning: between stimuli before a behavior: creates new behavioral response to a stimulus that did not normally produce it, spontaneous recovery: reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response. Involves learning involuntary when organism is exposed to the original conditioned stimulus after a period. Operant conditioning: between behavior and the event that follows it. Involves voluntary behavior: spontaneous recovery: reappearance of an extinguished behavior when reinforcement is provided again after a period of reinforcement. Discriminative stimulus: any stimulus that provides the organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement.
