PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: 5,6,7,8, Animal Training, Drug Tolerance
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Reinforcer increases the likelihood that an operant behavior will occur. Punishment decreases the likelihood that an operant behavior will occur: give an example of shaping in operant conditioning. Shaping reinforcing successive approximations of the behavior. Examples: animal training, getting a rat to press the lever, language development: know all of your schedules of reinforcement and give examples. Continuous reinforcement desired response is reinforced every time it occurs. Intermittent reinforcement reinforcing a response only part of the time. Ratio reinforcement schedules: reinforcement provided after a specified number of correct responses. Fixed ratio reinforce behavior after a set number of responses. (example: one reinforcer (food pellet?) every 30 seconds. Variable ratio reinforce behavior unpredictably (examples: gambling, fishing) Interval reinforcement schedules: reinforcement provided after a period of time. Fixed interval reinforce the first response after a fixed time period. (examples: checking mail more frequently as time nears, cookies done?) Variable interval reinforce the first response after varying time intervals. (examples:
