PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Edward Thorndike, Reward System, Operant Conditioning
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Associate a response (behaviour) and its consequences. Learn to repeat behaviours followed by desirable results. Learn to avoid behaviours followed by undesirable results. Cats in a puzzle box with a food reward outside the box. Recorded the amount of time that it took them to escape. Concluded that rewarded behaviour is likely to recur, which he called the. Reward behaviour that approaches the desired behaviour. Allows animal trainers to get animals to perform complex behaviours. Helps us understand what nonverbal organisms perceive information. A stimulus that increases the likelihood of a behaviour being repeated. Presenting a rewarding stimulus after a response. Removing an unpleasant stimulus after a response. Punishment decreases the frequency of a behaviour.
