Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: B. F. Skinner, Copycat Crime, Slot Machine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Next time: memory: read chapter 7: pg 266- 273. Film removed from theaters because controversial, worry about copycat crimes. Shows version training which is part of behavior therapy. Question from last class tone, a flash of light is paired with the tone . Sorry i couldn"t get the entire q in time. When pair stimuli other than the original that was learned. Because this is classical conditioning, much harder to do with. This is an example of higher-order conditioning instrumental conditioning. Dominant response: chose and reinforce some target response, can have positive/negative reinforcement/punishment. Punishment- decreases target behaviour: talks about instrumental conditioning more than thorndike, he calls it operant conditioning, its pretty much instrumental, notion of operants- very broad responses (vs specific ones) Thorndike said: trained rat to raise paw and push bar. Reinforce first correct response after a certain time has elapsed on the average. Choose a particular time and see how much time has passed on average.