PSYC 3050 Chapter : Madness From Prehistory To Enlightenment
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At this point, your knowledge of the basic principles of behavior should be extensive. You should be familiar with reinforcement, escape, discriminative stimuli and motivating operations. In this homework, we are going to take advantage of your knowledge and expand it. So before you go on, if you feel rusty or unfamiliar with the previously mentioned concepts and principles don"t hesitate to revisit relevant material in pob7e. Behavior: the response-contingent, prevention of an aversive condition, resulting in an increased frequency of that response, below is the basic format for the avoidance contingency. Before: will receive aversive condition at a specified time. After: won"t receive aversive condition at a specified time. Notice the avoidance contingencies are worded in future tense (will/won"t) and include deadlines. After: let"s try a basic example in the skinner box. Rudolph will hear a loud tone in 10 seconds, if he just sits there.
