Learning Part 3 Flashcards
A stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement
Discriminative Stimulus
Pigeons pecking when they see red and turning around when they see yellow
Discriminative Stimulus
An event that strengthens the behavior it follows: payment, “good job”, dessert
Reinforcement
Inborn and does not depend on learning/innately satisfying: hug, food, water
Primary Reinforcement
Stimuli that acquires their reinforcing power through their association with a primary reinforcer: money, good grades
Secondary Reinforcement
Presentation of an aversive stimulus which decreases the behavior it follows: traffic ticket, phone taken away
Punishment
Adding a pleasant stimulus
Positive Reinforcement
Adding an adverse stimulus
Positive Punishment
Remove adverse stimulus to increase behavior
Negative Reinforcement
Remove pleasant stimulus to decrease behavior
Negative Punishment
Behavior that prevents an aversive event by emitting target behaviors early: taking out the trash before you’re parents nag you about doing it later
Avoidance Behavior
Occurs when an organism learns to perform an operation to terminate an ongoing, aversive stimulus: leaving the building to avoid annoying fire drill sound
Escape Conditioning
Like Escape Conditioning but includes CS and is preventative in nature: putting your hands over your ears when you hear an announcement about a fire drill
Avoidance Conditioning
Operant procedure of reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs
Continuous Reinforcers
Operant Procedure of reinforcing a response intermittently or partially reinforced that is much more resistant to extinction, compared to being continuously reinforced
Partial Reinforcement
