EDUC681 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Stimulus Control
12 Nov 2020
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Chapter 10 (pp 256-273 & 282-285): differential reinforcement: antecedent control and. Stimulus control - bringing responses the learner already knows under the control of the appropriate cue or signal. Can be manipulated to bring about desired changes in behavior. Respondent conditioning - elicit a reflexive (involuntary) response/behavior. Operant behavior - automaticity is absent; behavior is learned rather than reflexive. Discrimination - the ability to tell the difference between environmental events or stimuli. Simple discrimination - student differentiates something from other things that are not the same. Stimulus overselectivity - respond to some totally irrelevant stimulus or to only one aspect of the stimulus. Concept = class of stimuli that have characteristics in common. All members of the class should occasion the same response. Additional stimulus that increase the probability that an sd will occasion the desired response. Offered after sd has been presented and has failed to occasion the response.
