OPERANT CONDITIONING Flashcards

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Positive reinforcement

A

Give a desirable

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Negative Reinforcement

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Remove an undesirable

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Punishment

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Give an undesirable

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Operant Conditioning Formula

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Response-positive or negative reinforcement-response is repeated
Response-punishment-response is eliminated

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Hurry Up and Wait

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hurry and reinforce, then wait for response again.

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Shaping

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reinforce for a response similar to the desired response during learning.

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Modeling

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demonstrate desired behavior for your learner.

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Increase and Decrease Restraints

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Make it easy for learner to do what you want, and hard not to.

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Continuous Reinforcement

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reinforcement after every desired response. Best while the learner is learning.

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Fixed Ratio

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reinforcement after a specific number of responses.

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Fixed Interval

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reinforcement after a specific amount of time.

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Variable Ratio

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reinforcement after an average number of responses.

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Variable Interval

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reinforcement after an average amount of time.

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Primary Reinforcers

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Reinforcement the learner is most motivated by and what causes them to learn.

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Secondary Reinforcers

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Reinforcement that allows the learner to be alerted that the primary reinforcer is coming.

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Avoidance Conditioning

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The learned has learned to avoid a punishment before it is imposed.

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Escape Conditioning

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The learner has learned to escape a punishment after it is imposed.

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Generalization (in OC)

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Reponse similar to the learned response, but not identical.

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Discrimination (in OC)

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Differentiate between the stimuli.

20
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What experiment did Solomon do? What did he find?

A

The paired dogs

(learned helplessness)

21
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What experiment did Kindenberg do?

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The fish food experiment

22
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What did Thorndike discover?

A

The law of effect

23
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the law of effect

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If a response is followed by a satisfying consequence (good effect), it is repeated.
If a response is followed by an annoying consequence (bad effect), it is eliminated.