PSYC1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intracranial Pressure, Blood Vessel, Circulatory System
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Discovered by b. f. skinner response to that behavior. Operant conditioning is about how behavior is altered based on the. > do something and get rewarded likely to do that behavior more. > do something and get punished likely to do that behavior. Skinner thought that operant conditioning could explain everything less about behavior. > we are rewarded and punished from a young age and our character is the sum of this that because it wants more food. > assumes there is a relationship between something it does and a reward. However, the pigeon is being rewarded at random. )t acts as if you(cid:495)re rewarding something it(cid:495)s doing, so it does more of. )f a pigeon will learn a behavior to get a reward when you(cid:495)re not. What if you try and get it to do something in particular? even really trying to get it to do anything in particular.
