Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Slot Machine, Piece Work, Behaviour Therapy

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

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After an animal has been classically conditioned to salivate, and pair with a light ---> higher- order conditioning. Fr: high response rate as well, stair-case post-reinforcement pause. Fi: not as fast as vr or fr, still many responses, the pause is also present, but kinda curve (scallop shapes) Vi: steady response rate, no pause, relatively much slower than the others. Experience with extinction maintains responding because reinforcement is unpredictable. Partial better continuous, vr or vi are most resistant to extinction. People stuck on slot machine is vr but the variable is way to big. Like phobiasvi 20 years, but the fear response maintains long-lasting effects. Learning not mechanical stamping in process, it involves the formation of cognition the internal processing of information. Kohler: insight: banana is way to high, but the monkey find a way to get it down. Avoidance learning: shuttle box: animal jump over the case to escape (escape the shock escape response).