PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reciprocal Altruism, Greylag Goose, Tantrum

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: meghannorris

Document Summary

Describe the basic principles of stimulus generalization and discrimination. Contrast contiguity and contingency, and describe the importance of these for conditioning to occur. Describe how behaviours are acquired and extinguished through operant conditioning. Discriminate among positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment and negative punishment. Describe the basic principles of shaping and chaining. Describe the basic principle of stimulus discrimination. Describe how partial reinforcement and different schedules of reinforcement yield distinct patterns of responding, including extinction. Describe biological influences and cognitive approaches to learning. Describe taste aversion, preparedness, instinctive drift and imprinting. Describe the ability to navigate in the physical environment (spatial and latent learning) Describe observational learning, imprinting, instinctive drift, and cognitive approaches to learning, including the concepts of latent learning and cognitive maps. If someone asks you, what is learning? you can quickly come up with lots of examples, such as acquiring the ability to ride a bike or taking this class on introductory psychology.