Lecture 5: Punishments Flashcards
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Delivering an aversive stimulus
Punishment
What determines effectiveness?
Intensity.
- Yerkes Dodson Law
- depends on difficulty
Omission of something good. Response decreases.
Negative punishment
What are the 4 factors that affects punishment?
- Stimulus control
- Path dependence
- Delay
- RFT schedule
Based more on classical conditioning. Suppression through fear conditioning. Fear reducing behavior.
Conditioned emotional response
What are the 3 side effects of punishment?
- Neurotic symptoms
- Aggression
- Fear and anxiety
Elicited by pain, frustration and modeling a behavior
Aggression
Something that is not controlled. Use of electric shocks and painful punishment
Fear and anxiety
____________ is contentious
Punishment
What decreases the probability of an appetitive outcome
Response
Reduction of response for Discriminative stimulus but not Sdelta
Stimulus control
What are the 2 kinds of delay
- Shorter is better than longer
2. Temporal contiguity
CRF is better than PRF
RFT schedule
What is the punishment of a reinforced response
Trade-off between reward and aversive outcome
What can increase a reinforced response
Punishment
What does punishing affects
Interval and ratio schedules
What is an example of a punishment seeking behaviour
Avoidance learning
What can explain the effects of punishment
- Premack principle
- Conditioned emotional response
- Avoidance learning
Learning of an incompatible response and unpleasant event avoided by performing alternative response can be explained by what
Avoidance learning
What can be avoided by performing alternative response
Unpleasant event
What are the side effects of punishment
- Neurotic symptoms
- Aggression
- Fear/anxiety
- Fear conditioning not specific to the undesirable response
What is elicited by pain and frustration and of modeling of behaviour
Aggression
What are the alternatives to punishment
- Extinction
2. Differential reinforcement of other behaviour
What is considered to be an effective punishment
- Immediate
- Consistent
- Contingent on undesired response
- Delivered under variety of conditions
- Sufficiently aversive from the outset
- Not too severe
- Delivered in the presence of alternative response
- Accompanied by a rational explanation
