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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Classic Conditioning

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Actions between stimuli
Respondent Behavior

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Operant Conditioning

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Associations between actions and consequences

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Operant Behavior

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Operating on the environment to produce rewarding or punishing stimuli

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Skinner’s Experiements

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Law of Effect, which is the theory that rewarded behavior tends to occur
In the category of behavior control

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What are Skinner’s main questions he had going into Behavioral Control?

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  1. How can we more carefully measure the effect of consequences on chosen behavior
  2. What else can creatures be taught to do by controlling consequences
  3. What happens when we change the timing of reinforcement?
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Skinner Box; Operant Chamber

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Reinforcement: anything that strengthens a preceding response
Reinforcers vary with circumstance

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Shaping Behavior

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  • Gradually guiding actions toward a desired behavior
  • If you reward nagging, it will continue
  • First, build on natural already existing behaviors
  • Reward successive approximations (rewarding behaviors ever closer to what you want)
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Positive Reinforcement

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Pleasurable stimulus immediately after response

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Negative Reinforcement

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Removing something negative immediately after response
IE taking aspirin to relieve headache, snoozing annoying alarm, NOT punishment

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Primary Reinforcers

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Unlearned reinforcers (eat when hungry, don’t eat when not hungry)

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Conditioned Reinforcers

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Learned reinforcers (work to make money to survive)

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Immediate Reinforcement

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A treat five minutes after a trick that a dog does won’t reinforce the trick.

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Delayed Reinforcement

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A paycheck can be a delayed reinforcer, paid a month later, if we link it to our performance. Humans have the ability to link a consequence to a behavior even if they aren’t linked sequentially in time. Delayed reinforcement enables longer-term goal setting

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Ratio, fixed

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Getting a free coffee reward every 10th coffee

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Interval, fixed

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Reinforcement for a behavior after a fixed time, such as Tuesday discount prices

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Ratio, variable

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Getting a prize on random times - such as slot machines

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Interval, variable

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Reinforcement for behavior after a random amount of time, such as checking our phone for a text message

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Rat gets food every 3rd time it presses the lever

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Fixed ratio

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Getting paid weekly no matter how much work is done

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Fixed interval

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Getting paid for every ten boxes you make

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Fixed Ratio

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Hitting a jackpot sometimes on the slot machine

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Variable Ratio

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Checking cell phone all day, sometimes getting a text

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Variable Interval

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Buy 8 pizzas, get the next one free

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Fixed Ratio

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Kid has tantrum, parents sometimes give in

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Variable Ratio

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Repeatedly checking mail until paycheck arrives

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Fixed Interval

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Positive punishment

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Administering something they don’t want - give a traffic ticket for speeding

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Negative punishment

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Taking away something they want - revoke a rude person’s chat room access

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Punishment and Parenting

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  • punished behavior is suppressed and not forgotten. This temporary state may negatively reinforce parent’s punishing behavior
  • IE parents spank kids to stop kids doing something, but kids keep doing it when parents aren’t there
  • physical punishment does not replace unwanted behavior
  • IE guidance about appropriate behaviors is necessary
  • Punishment teaches discrimination among situations
    IE kids may learn it is not okay to swear at home, but can do it somewhere else
  • Punishment can teach fear
  • Physical punishment may increase aggression by modeling violence as a way to cope with problems
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Operant Conditioning Applied

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Sports: Reinforcing small wins and then making the challenger harder. Start learning to shoot a basketball very close to the hoop and then slowly move back.
Work: Rewards for a job well done
Parenting: Reinforce good behavior, explain bad behavior and redirect

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