Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Contiguity, B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: All

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Topics of the day: factors affecting conditioning, law of effect. A real estate agent showed john a picture of a lakefront property over and over while they are a delicious mouth-watering meal. Later, when john was given a tour of the property, he drooled with delight. For john, the lakefront property was a condition stimulus. Acquisition curve: response strength, latency (cs-cr, overtime latency decreases, negatively accelerated. It asymptotes: output measure, overtime output measure increases, negatively accelerated, steeper at begin and flatten out at the end. Instrumental conditioning: skinner, operant conditioning, association between a stimulus and stimuli, thorndike. Instrumental: association between a stimulus and a response, s-r bond is strengthened by reinforcement, law of effect. Model: stimulus situation, dominant response, learned over time, biologically programmed, choose and reinforce some target response, dominant response changes after above, stimulus situation, target response, response is contingent.