PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reinforcement, Habituation, B. F. Skinner

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

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Operational definition: a more or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. In all classical conditioning, there are five things to identify: the unconditioned stimulus (ucs), the unconditioned response (ucr), the conditioned stimulus (cs), the conditioned response (cr), as well as the neutral stimulus (ns) In pavlov"s experiment, we can assign the following: Ucs: the food, because there is an innate awareness of what the food means to the organism- there was no special training needed. Ucr: the salivation that occurs when the meat is presented. Cs: the food, since it is what the dog salivates for. Cr: the salivation that now also occurs with the bell ringing. Ns: the bell, since there were no prior feelings about it: a high-order paradigm, let"s say pavlov borrowed the bell from a friend for his experiment, and eventually had to return it to his friend.