PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Situation Two, Wart
6 Oct 2015
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Psyc 110 - lecture 6 - operant conditioning. Process by which an organism learns through the consequences for its interactions (or responses) with the environment. Consequences can either increase or decrease the rate at which an organism responds. Organisms form associations between stimuli- conditioned stimulus (cs) and unconditioned stimulus (us) It involves automatic reactions to stimuli (respondent behavior) Stimulus precedes the response and elicits (via cs-us pairings) it in the future. Organisms associate their own behavior with consequences. It involves a relationship between the organisms emitted behavior and the environment. Consequence follows the response and either increases or decreases it in the future. Many times, the desired operant behavior is not in the organism"s" repertoire. However, usually the organism has a related (or somewhat close) behavior. We must give feedback for performed behaviors in order to get closer to our desired behavior. A hungry cat would be placed inside a small cage with food just outside.
