PS261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Cognitive Map, Classical Conditioning
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With habituation elicited behaviour is unlearned. With elicited behaviour learned when cs paired with us (like classical conditioning: subject initiates behaviour behaviour already part of subject(cid:495)s behavioural repertoire. Thought of as goal-directed consequences that the receives are directly related to subject(cid:495)s behaviour. Instrumental conditioning is all about how the consequence of a behaviour can influence the future frequency of that behaviour. Studied cats in puzzle boxes: measured the time it took for cat to escape the box, latencies decreased across trials, attributed to development of s-r association. Outcome = increase/decrease strength of association bw s and r. Outcome (food/shock) was not part of association. Law of effect: if a response in presence of a stimulus is followed by a pleasant event, association bw s and r = strengthened: annoying event = weakening of s-r association. 2 start location (s1 + s2) and 2 goal locations ( g1 + g2)
