PSYC 1100 1nd Edition Lecture 15 Outline of Last Lecture I Incremental Learning II Law of Effect III Operant Conditioning IV Classical Conditioning V Skinner Outline of Current Lecture I Reinforcement II Punishment III Discriminative Stimulus Current Lecture I Reinforcement always increases rate of responding positive reinforcement delivers appetitive stimulus food approval negative reinforcement removes aversive stimulus shock alarm clock noise II Punishment Decreases the rate or responding With NO reinforcement extinction and spontaneous recovery happen just as in classical conditioning These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute III Discriminative Stimulus indicates under what circumstances response will be reinforced EXAMPLE rat presses bar but only gets food when light in box is on eventually doesn t press unless light is on stimulus does NOT CAUSE response or SIGNAL reinforcement it SETS OCCASION for response
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