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Skinner Flashcards

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What was skinners conditioning and what does it mean?

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Operant conditioning- shaping behaviour through reinforcement and punishment

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How does operant conditioning work?

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When a creature peforms voluntary response it learns from the consequences of those actions. Consequences that are rewarding reinforce the behaviour so they are peformed more frequently

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Evaluation

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Weakness- use of animal subjects may not be generalisable to human behaviour
May be seen as unethical
Reductionist

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Box experiments

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Positive reinforcement
Rat gets treat pulling leaver

Negative reinforcement
Rat turns off current pulling leaver

Negative punishment
Rat turns on current pulling leaver

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Approaches Paper 2 Psychology (4 decks)

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