Lesson 8-Operant Conditioning Flashcards
Proponents of Operant Conditioning have always argued that Classical Conditioning is very …
limited.
One of the limitations of Classical Conditioning is that it is all about …
involuntary behaviors.
Classical Conditioning is insufficient to study human behavior because much of what we do …
is voluntary (or deliberate).
Operant Conditioning theorist attempt to explain …
our voluntary, deliberate behaviors.
Operant Conditioning proposes that we learn as the result of …
Rewards and Punishment.
What are other names for Operant Conditioning?
- Skinnerian Conditioning
- Instrumental Conditioning
Instrumental means that something is …
goal directed towards getting a reward.
So, if a behavior is instrumental, it is instrumental towards us getting …
some kind of a reward.
Who are the key researchers who founded Operant Conditioning Theory?
B.F. Skinner and Thorndike
What law did Thorndike propose?
The Law of Effect
The Law of Effect says that …
we initial do behaviors somewhat randomly. Then the behaviors that get rewarded we do more, and the behaviors that get punished get weaker.
Thorndike later revised the Law of Effect …
to only include rewards.
Thorndike revised the Law of Effect because he found in his research …
that punishments do not necessarily decrease behavior.
