PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Puzzle Box, Learning Curve

• School: UW
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 101
• Professor: Ann Culligan

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Classical conditioning outside the lab: advertising: often using sex, aversions, ptsd: a very traumatic experience conditions a very rapid response to previously nontraumatic stimuli. Usually multiple stimuli, so very difficult to treat: phobias. Start off with a relatively meaningless neutral stimulus, something that has not actually hurt us. Paired (cid:449)ith a frighte(cid:374)i(cid:374)g e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t, or (cid:449)ith (cid:449)it(cid:374)essi(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else"s fear. Operant conditioning: association between a behavior and a consequence, e. l. thorndike. Puzzle box paradigm: interested in how fast cats could escape. Successful behaviors are likely to be repeated: b. f. skinner. Different behaviors resulted in a reward or punishment (like food or electric shock) Operant conditioning: learning an association between a behavior and its consequence. Requires that a consequence follow the behavior: reinforcement: increases the likelihood of the behavior. Beha(cid:448)ior (cid:449)as (cid:862)successful(cid:863: punishment: decreases the likelihood of the behavior. Beha(cid:448)ior (cid:449)as (cid:374)ot (cid:862)successful(cid:863: types of consequences. Adds something desirable: rat presses a lever, gets a sugar pellet.