PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Reward System, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Edward Thorndike
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Classical conditioning (cs predicts ucs) responses onto new stimuli: builds on existing sr relations, forming associations and through the associations mapping current. 1930s, 1940s, 1950s: everybody was excited about genetics fast horses. Darwin people were using artificial selection to do things their environment. We behave, then note the consequences and use them to modulate future behaviour: eugenics well regarded during this same period once humans understood darwin & genetics they made the leap according to. Eg: so they"ve been able to breed faster horses by breeding 2. The term (cid:498)operant(cid:499) refers to the notion that humans learn from operating on operant conditioning. Through this, he formed the law of effect, which states that a behaviour that. Skinner strongly championed the experimental study of the law of effect, and he made strong claims to its application to human behaviour -- walden. He invented a number of devises for studying operant conditioning the most famous being the operant chamber or (cid:498)skinner box(cid:499)
