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what is a reinforcement?

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if a behaviour is strengthened by the immediate consequence that reliably follows its occurrence

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what does “strengthened mean”

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more likely to occur again in the future

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what does appetitive mean>

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appealing, things we want that are enjoyable (food)

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if a relationship is strengthened, you are..?

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more likely to engage again in the future

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what are the steps in defining reinforcement?

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occurrence of a behaviour (response) -> immediate consequence -> outcome strengthened the behaviour (more likely to do it again)

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the outcome being strenghtened is just making an?

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educated guess!! probability or likelihood!! we assume they are more likely, but it can not become strengthened

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thorndike law of effect is a model of?

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operant conditioning

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what mechanism did thorndike use to measure the law of effect?

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puzzle box

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what is a puzzle box?

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  • sequence of actions that cats had to perform to get outside of the box
  • cats placed in the box while hungry (internal state / motivation important)
  • to get out of the box, their consequence is food access
  • motivated for the cat to get out of the box (extra reinforcing = strengthened association)
  • cats figured out what actions helped them escape
  • action leads to a satisfying state of affairs, it is more likely to occur again
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what is incremental learning?

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  • latency to escape is increasing incrementally as they learn what actions will and will not get them out
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what is an operant/instrumental behaviour/response?

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  • behaviour that is strengthened through reinforcement
  • you are making a response / doing a behaviour that you must do to get whatever the consequence is
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how can we tell if a behaviour is strenghthened?

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increase in frequency, duration, intensity, and latency/speed

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what is operant behaviour?

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behaviour that is strengthened through reinforcement
acts on environment to produce a consequence

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what is a reinforcer?

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increase behaviour / strengthened / more likely / more steady

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what is a punishment?

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decrease behaviour / weakened / less likely

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what is positive reinforcement?

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  • adding a stimulus to our situation to increase the likelihood of that behaviour occurring again in the future
  • giving them something that is reinforcing
  • strengthening our behaviour
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what is negative reinforcement?

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  • taking something away makes a behaviour more likely to occur in the future
  • taking a painkiller for a headache: consequence = pain goes away to get rid of aversive stimulus, and you now feel better
  • snooze button on alarm, remove unwanted stimulus and head back to sleep, more likely to occur in the future
  • avoidance behaviour because we don’t want to experience aversive stimulus
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what is escape behaviour?

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  • when an operant behaviour increases by removing an ongoing event or stimulus
  • pressing a lever to stop an electric shock
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what is a shuttle box in escape behaviour?

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run to other side of enclosure where it is no longer electrified

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what is avoidance behaviour?

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  • you know aversive stimulus is coming and you can take prevention to avoid that aversive stimulus
  • when operant behaviour increases by presenting the onset of the event or stimulus
  • shuttle box: there is a red light that comes on a few seconds before floor is electrified, so if you run to other side before the light turns off again
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what is an unconditional (primary) reinforcer?

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a reinforcer that has acquired its properties as a function of species evolutionary history

(do not teach a dog to salivate to food, it just does )

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do unconditional (primary) reinforcers have phylogenetic performance? what are some examples?

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yes! food, sex, water, sleep = naturally reinforcing

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do primary reinforcers rely on deprivation? how?

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yes!
- if you have been deprived of something, the stimuli will be very reinforcing
- if you have a surplus of something and are offered more, the stimuli will not be very reinforcing

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what was liberman’s rational talk discussion?

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  • reinforcing rational talk, people like to spend time with other people, so you only engage more in rational talk
  • decrease in irrational talk due to the reinforcement of rational talk
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what is a conditional (secondary) reinforcer?

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otherwise neutral stimuli or events that have become reinforced
(money is a general secondary reinforcer: if you hand a child a 100 dollar bill, they don’t really know what to do with it, but once they see they can buy toys and candy with it, it is a reinforcer)

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what is the difference between a primary and secondary reinforcer

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primary: you do not need to learn the behaviour
secondary: you do need to learn the behaviour

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what are variables affecting reinforcement?

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  • immediacy
  • specific reinforcer used
  • task characteristics
  • contingency
  • contiguity
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how does immediacy affect reinforcement?

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stimulus is far more effective as a reinforcer if it is delivered immediately after the behaviour occurs

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how does the specific reinforcer affect reinforcement?

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  • what is reinforcing for one individual may not be reinforcing for another individual
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how do task characteristics affect reinforcement?

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  • specific actions you must undertake and how that relates to what you get as a reinforcer
  • a pecking behaviour to get food is natural for pigeons, but not for a hawk
  • biological preparedness: pecking for food in a specifies that pecks for food, it is going to be a lot easier to reinforce because they already know how to peck
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how does contingency affect reinforcement?

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  • stimulus more effective as a reinforcer when it is contigent on the behaviour
  • if pecking gets you food, it is going to be more reinforcing if the ONLY way to get food is pecking
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does contingency occur on its own?

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no! only co-occur

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how does contiguity affect reinforcement?

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  • closeness or nearness of events
  • hyperbolic decay: things become less and less reinforcing if we have to wait for something
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is reinforcement a theory?

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  • no!
  • description of what is happening
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how is reinforcement a functional description?

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this is what is occurring

36
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is reinforcement circular?

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no!

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what are the two types of motivating operations?

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establishing operation and abolishing operations

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what are establishing operations?

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  • there are certain things that can make something more or less reinforcing
  • will make a stimulus more effective as a reinforcer at a specific time
  • deprive organism of food, then will make food more reinforcing due to hunger
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what are abolishing operations?

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  • stimulus that makes a reinforcer less effective at a particular time
  • fed them before the experiment, and then
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what is reinforcer magnitude?

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  • more intense stimuli makes a behaviour more reinforcing
  • 1 pellet vs 10 pellets? 10 better
  • eventually will level off at a certain point depending on the reinforcer (rat does not want 200 pieces of kibble)
  • not going to be as effective if we use continuously
  • more magnitude is better up to a certain point
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what are repeating continginces?

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should i watch youtube or study

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what is the premack principle?

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  • can look at relative amount of engagement in certain kinds of behaviour
  • particlar types of behaviour and likelihood of engaging in the behaviour when left to your own devices
  • may have high and low probability behaviours
  • high: do a lot
  • low: infrequent
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how does the premack principle work in practice?

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our low probability event allowing us to engage in our high probability behaviour, it reinforces our low probability behaviour

high probability behaviour reinforces low probability:
- kid prefers pinball to eating candy
- eat candy first before pinball
- will eat candy more to play pinball

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what are the problems of the premack principle?

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  • doesn’t account for conditional reinforcement effects (actions you have to do to receive an outcome might not work for everyone)
  • can shift from high to low probability if you shift low probability event occurring (deprivation)
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how can premack principle be applied to clinical patients?

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find out what behaviour is reinforcing for each individual
- sitting still in individual with schizophrenia
- stereotyped behaviour in children with autism

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what is the schedule of reinforcement?

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a rule describing the delivery of reinforcement (certain time before you get food, do a certain number of behaviours to get food)
- different schedules produce unique schedule effects (consistent)

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what is a cumulative record?

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cumulative number of responses

operant actions: what patterns get reinforced, delivered automatically, recorded data for us automatical

slope: rate of responding, how many responses were made per unit time

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what is a continuous reifnrocement chedul

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