Module 21 Flashcards
What is Thorndike’s Law of Effect?
Behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely and behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
Who is B.F. Skinner?
The king of operant conditioning
What is reinforcement?
Any feedback from the environment that makes a behavior more likely to occur
What is delayed reinforcement?
The ability to link a consequence to a behavior even if they aren’t linked sequentially in time.
Rat gets food every third time it presses a lever. What schedule of reinforcement?
Fixed ratio
Getting paid weekly no matter how much work is done. Which schedule of reinforcement?
Fixed interval
What are punishments?
Making a target behavior less likely to occur in the future
What is the difference between positive and negative punishment?
Positive is adding something unpleasant (spanking the child)
Negative is taking away something pleasant (saying no TV time)
When a schedule is fixed what does that mean?
A consistent time or number of times
What is variable?
A random time or number of times
