PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Slot Machine, Motivation, Reinforcement
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Psyb45 chapter 4: increasing a behavior with positive reinforcement. Operant behaviors: behaviors that operate on the environment to generate consequences and are in turn influenced by those consequences (operant responses: followed by positive reinforcers are increased, while operant behaviors that are followed by punishers are decreased. Positive reinforcement versus negative reinforcement: the removal of an event following a response may also increase that response, ex. a parent nagging to do the dishes, when the child does the dishes the nagging stops. Deprivation: indicate the time during which an individual does not experience the reinforce. Reinforcer is contingent when a specific behavior must occur before that reinforcer will be presented. Reinforcer is non-contingent if that reinforcer is presented at a particular time regardless of the preceding behavior: swimming ex. Natural environment: a setting in which an individual carries out normal, everyday functions (i. e. , not a situation explicitly designed for training)
