lecture 4 Flashcards
in instrumental learning situations there are
situational stimuli , réponses/behvaiours and outcomes
situations stimuli and outcomes
S-O connections
Situational stimuli and responses
S-R connections
response - outcomes
R-O connections
according to thorndike
stimuli and outcomes do NOT become connected/associated and neither do responses and outcomes
response outcome associations
an organism produces a behaviour/response because it is associated with an outcome
how can we test whether a response is elicited by a stimulus S-R theory or produced in order to achieve an outocome - r-o theory
outcome devaluation
decreasing motivation should reduce the likelihood of the behaviour
how do you decrease motivation
by making the outcome less desirable
in some situations a learned behaviour is
produced regardless of whether the reinforces value is reduce or not
habit
over learned - no longer sensitive to reinforcer devaluation
goal directed behaviour
instrumental behaviour whose production is sensitive to the value of its outcome or associated reinforcer
shaping
method of training a response by reinforcing a sequence of progressively closer approximations
stages of sill acquisition
novice intermediate and expert
novice
performance relies on cognitive processes
intermediate stage
performance still involves cognitive processes - partially autonomic
