Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Delayed Gratification, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

Edward thorndike: placed cats in puzzle boxes . Needed to perform some series of actions to get out. At first, cats would only get out by chance. After multiple sessions, though, they got faster and faster at getting out (with fewer and fewer mistakes: improvement in performance (learning) was gradual. No insight or aha! moment just trial and error. Law of effect: a response that is followed by a satisfying outcome will become more likely to occur, a response that is followed by an unsatisfying outcome will become less likely to occur. The behavior was instrumental in bringing about the outcome. B. f. skinner: expanded on the work by thorndike. Still very much in line with instrumental learning and the law of. Learning in which the likelihood of behaviours are influenced by their consequences: said learning was like natural selection for behavior. Beneficial behavior survives and increases in frequency. Harmful behavior gets weeded out by selection: skinner box .