PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Little Albert Experiment, John B. Watson
16 Jun 2015
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Psychology101: learning and memory - association (thursday, october 11, 2012) Continuation : b. f. skinner (instrumental, skinnerian) conditioning: focusing on the outcomes of our behaviour, either positive or negative. Desirable outcomes lead to positive behaviour and vice versa, and difference influences have affected the nature of the behaviour. You can vary the nature, in which reward is provided: did experiments with pigeon in which it would peck a button, and each time a food pellet would be released. Ratios were established which it would need to peck a button 5:1 ratio. Pecks it five times in order to get a pellet. He studied the motivational aspect of law and effect. Once they see the parallel between the pecking and the food pellet, you change it so that there is no set ratio. It will then vary and change in a random kind of fashion. But eventually this pigeon will wear outs it beak: the reinforcement schedule:
