Chapter 6 Part 2 Flashcards
What are pain/scare tactics considered in training?
Positive punishment
What is a extinction burst
To extinguish a behavior, sometimes we don’t need punishment, we just need absence of reinforcement- cessation of reinforcement.
With that, the subject will sometimes panic and continue the behavior more aggressively. This is an extinction burst.
Eg. If a child throws a tantrum and you pick them up, you’re reinforcing tantrum behavior. If you stop reinforcing it, the child might scream MORE before it realizes you won’t pick them up anymore for screaming.
What is extinction in classical conditioning?
When you stop pairing the conditioned stimulus with the unconditional stimulus, over time it goes back to being a neutral stimulus. “Losing the association”
What is operant conditioning?
Making a behavior more or less likely to occur in the future.
What happens if you give up in the middle of an extinction burst?
You not only maintain the problem, you worsen the problem. You’ve reinforced the PEAK, an increased magnitude and frequency of the bad behavior.
What is the abbreviation for Discriminative Stimulus?
“SD”
If gromit is rewarded with a fish whwn he follows cues to bark, he’ll just bark all the time. But if you train him that SOMETIMES barking leads to a reward and sometimes it DOESNT. How do we get gromit to discriminate between the two?
The SD (discriminitive stimulus) is the hand signal. When gromit sees it and barks he is assured a reward. The SD is the signal that asks for the behavior.
What is an SD?
It is a discriminitive stimulus, it is the signal that asks for the behavior.
What is stimulus generalization?
If Sean trains gromit with a black circle, that black circle is the SD.
If gromit barks at a different color circle, that is generalization.
What is stimulus discrimination?
If Sean trains gromit with a black circle, that black circle is an SD. If a different color circle is held up and gromit DOESNT bark, that’s stimulus discrimination.
What is cessation of reinforcement?
Absence of reinforcement, to start the extinction process.
An example of stimulus discrimination
If you try to train (reward) an animal to bark for green circles but not for red, and he can’t learn the trick. This is stimulus discrimination (animal is likely color blind)
How is a slot machine like a (BF) Skinner box?
Intermittent reinforcement. It’s a machine that trains you to pull a lever on the chance you might be rewarded.
