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Week 8 Lecture Flashcards

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What is Instrumental Learning?

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Otherwise known as Operant Conditioning

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Psychology defines learning as . . .

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a relatively permanent change in behaviour due to experience

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Stimulus Discrimintation

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Demonstrating a response to a certain type of stimulus.

eg: Swooping Magpies causes fear of Magpies but not of all birds

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Stimulus Generalsiation

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A response that is applied to one type of stimulus now becomes attached to other similar stimulus.

eg: Swooping Magpies causes fear of all birds and things with feathers.

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Higher Order Conditioning

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  • Previously neutral Stimulus (e.g., a light)
  • Paired with a conditioned stimulus (e.g., a tone that has been conditioning with food to produce salivating)
  • Produces the same conditioned response as the conditioned stimulus
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What is Behaviour Therapy>

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  • Based on Classical Conditioning
  • Helps overcome phobias and other problem behaviours
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Define Phobia

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  • an extreme, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.
  • Classified as a type of anxiety disorder
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What does Skinner suggest about organisms behaviour?

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  • Organisms learn to “operate” within their environment
  • Don’t just respond reflexively
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Operant Conditioning equals

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Operant Conditioning = Consequences

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Thorndike (1898) Puzzle Box

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Used to Examine the Behaviour of Cats attempts to get out of a box.

  • R1: Bite at Box
  • R2: Jump up and down
  • R3: Meow
  • R:Correct - Pull at string
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What are primary reinforcements?

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  • Food
  • Water
  • Reproduction
  • Safety
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What are some Secondary Reinforcements?

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  • community - access to other people
  • money
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Operant Conditioning - Shaping

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  • Reinforcement closer and closer approximation of desired result
  • useful whe teaching improbable behaviours like bear riding a bicycle.
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Successive Approximations

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Shaping behaviour

The closer we get to the behaviour we want then we give a reward

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Describe Reinforcement

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  • Reinforcement is used to increase behaviour
  • Positive Reinforcement ADDS a GOOD stimuli to increase behaviour
  • Negative Reinforcement REMOVES something BAD to increase behaviour.
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Describe Punishment

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  • Punishment is used to decrease a behaviour
  • Positive punishment ADDS something BAD to decrease a behaviour
  • Negative punishment REMOVES something GOOD to decrease a behaviour

eg: Positive Punishment for speeding - Receive a fine

Negative Punishment for speeding - Lose your licence

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Describe Learned Helplessnes

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When we learn that previous strategies to solve problems that we used no longer work, then people tend to stop trying to changes things

  • significant for people with depression because:
    • previous learning can inhibit the adaptive process
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Conditioned Emotional Response

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Focusing on the emotional response to Operant Conditioning

  • CS (Bell) paired with CR (Press lever) then food is delivered.
  • Secondary NS (light) paired with CS ( Bell) then add UCS (Electric Shock) When Lever is pressed
  • CS (light) leads to CER(fear of pain) rat will brace in fear of pain.
  • Eventually rat may not press the lever even if it is hungry
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Schedule’s of Reinforcement

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Interval Reinforcement

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Reinforcement given at a rate of TIME

Variable - the amount of TIME between reinforcements varies

Fixed - the amount of TIME between reinforcements is always the same.

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Ratio Reinforcement

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Reinforcement given after a certain number of repetetions

Variable - reinforcemet is applied at a varying NUMBER of correct responses

Fixed - reinforcement is applied after a SPECIFIC NUMBER of correct responses

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Discriminative Stimuli

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Cues that influence operant behaviour are influenced by probable consequences.

Eg: rat only presses a lever when the light goes on.

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Generalisation

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  • Reacting to similar stimuli
  • Reacting to an alarm then reacting to all alarms
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What is Scalloping Effect

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After reinforcement occurs there is a short plateau of behaviour followed by a spiked increase in behaviour as the time for reinforcement approaches.

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Partial Reinforcement Effect

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  • resistance to extinction
  • can be really pervasive behaviours because of this
  • eg; fishing & Gambling
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Antecedents in Behaviour

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  • What is the behaviour that we wish to change
  • is it a defecit? - would like to do more of.
    • there is usually a competing behaviour - what is it’s antecedent?
  • is it an excess? - would like to do less of.
  • What is triggering the behaviour
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Behaviour Modification

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Changing behaviour by using a systematic program that has been chosen according to the behaviour.

  • eg: Operant Conditioning to change addictive behaviour
  • positive reinforcement to drink more water.
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Ratio and Intervals in Operant Conditioning

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  • Fixed Ratio - Every set amount
  • Variable Ratio - Varying Amount
  • Fixed Interval - Fixed Time Period
  • Variable Interval - Varying Time Period
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What are Skinner’s views on Personality?

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  • Very similar to his views on Behaviour
  • Personality is learned throught conditioning
  • Personality is responses to various stimulus situations
  • The environment alone determines how people will respond
  • Cognition does not determine personality at all
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An evaluation of Radical Behaviourism

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  • Skinner’s ideas are very influentia
  • but are too deterministic
  • limited view of personality, motivation and emotional influences
  • Unconscious, biology, cognition and free will must be considered
  • these criticisms lead to social/cognitive approaches and Humanism
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Albert Bandura (1960)

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Learning is a change in beleifs and expectations of observers

32
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Black Box Theory

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  • Skinner said the mind was like a Black Box
  • We measure inputs (stimuli) and observe outputs (behaviour) without understanding the mechanics of the brain itself
  • Skinner said the brain was too complex to understand so we didn’t need to study it.
  • Cognition is irrelevant to stimuli and behavour, only the resulting behaviour is important.
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Bandura explores Black Box Theory

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  • Learning is changes in beleifs and expectancies of observers
  • classical and operant conditioning are ways of developing expectancies
  • observation is also a way to develop expectancies
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Avoidance Learning

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  • a learned behaviour that results in avoidance as a strategy to reduce unpleasant or painful consequences.

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