PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning, Radical Behaviorism
6 Apr 2018
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2gg3: learning, measuring and shaping behaviour behaviourism: operant conditioning. The plan: to review radical behaviorism, to understand reinforcement and schedules, practical applications of operant conditioning, to appraise skinner"s position. Rely exclusively on directly observable phenomena: 2. Psychology is considered an objective science: no one was arguing with that, subjectiveness was taken out, 3. Analysis of behaviour without appeal to subjective mental events or speculative physiological events: came up with a way to measure and change behaviour and observing it. Causes of behaviour are outside the person, and that these can be observed and studied. Operant learning: responses elicited by a stimulus are labeled respondents, organism reacts to the environment, pavlovian kind of thinking, o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)is(cid:373) does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol o(cid:448)e(cid:396) Continuous or intermittent reinforcement: ratio: number, interval: time, ex. Signal attenuation as a rat model of obsessive compulsive disorder: methodology on implementing these things from skinners lab and applying it to su.
