PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Ibuprofen, Formal Learning
29 Aug 2016
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An action"s consequences determine the likelihood it will happen. Operate on your environment to produce effects. Reinforcer: a stimulus that follows a response and increases the likelihood of response repetition. Reinforcing behaviors that are increasing similar to the desired behavior. Reinforcement increases a behavior: primary vs. secondary reinforcers, reinforcer potency. The premack principle: more-valued behavior reinforces less-valued behavior. If you find the things that are really valuable to x person, then you can make them do something easier. There are things we really want and there are things that we kind of like. Positive reinforcement: do the right behavior, good things happen (give a rat some cheese for pressing a lever. Negative reinforcement: do the right behavior, bad things stop happening (rat presses a lever to turn off a shock) If you have a headache, you take advil. Then one day you get a headache again, and you take the advil and again it goes away. (negative)
