Learning Flashcards
Classical conditioning
Conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned response from unconditioned response.
Ie Pavlov’s dog.
One trial learning
Can produce a phobia
Undo classical conditioning
Extinction conditioning or counter conditioning
Operant conditioning
Consequences (law of effect) reinforcement and punishment.
Reinforcement
Increases target behavior
Increases rate of behavior
Punishment
Decreases target behavior
Decreases rate of behavior
Positive reinforcement
When you do something that adds something pleasant.
Negative reinforcement
When you do something that removes something unpleasant.
When something negative is removed.
Positive punishment
Action inflicted to decrease behavior
Negative punishment
Removal of something to decrease behavior. Eg remove choices and freedom.
Response cost (negative punishment)
Eg fines
Discriminative stimuli
Stimulus generalization
Eg sexual assault by a man with a beard. Afraid of all men with beards.
Stimulus descrimination
Discriminate between stimulus
Eg not all men with beards will assault you.
Schedules of reinforcement
Ratio (no of responses) Fixed eg every 20 times
Variable eg random
Interval (1st response after a time period is reinforced)
Fixed or variable
Behavioral skills training
Steps:
Instructions
Modelling
Rehearsal
Constructive feedback with reinforcement