PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Vending Machine, Classical Conditioning, Stimulus Control
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Chapter 9: responding at the right time and place: stimulus discrimination and stimulus. It"s a (cid:272)ue that the (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior (cid:449)ill pa(cid:455) off: through experience, we learn to refrain from preforming certain behaviors in the presence of certain stimuli because we have learned that those behaviors will go unreinforced. Instead of discriminating between stimulus and responding differentially to them, a person responds in the same way to different stimuli. Factors determining the effectiveness of stimulus discrimination training: choosing distinct signals. That is, is it different in location, size, color, and sensory modality (vision, hearing, touch, etc: 1b. Is the stimulus one that can be presented only or at least mainly on occasions when the desired response should occur to avoid confusion with the occurrence of the stimulus on other occasions: 1c. Is the stimulus of the type that the probability of the person attending to it when it is presented is high: 1d.
