operant conditioning
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- Created on: 01-10-18 16:24
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- OPERANT CONDITIONING
- TYPES OF CONSEQUENCES
- positive reinforcement
- pleasant / satisfying consequence
- negative reinforcement
- removing /escaping form an unpleasant consequence
- punishment
- provides an unpleasant consequence
- negative punishment
- decreases chances of behaviour occurring again
- provides an unpleasant consequence
- positive reinforcement
- weaknesses
- animals learn unnatural behaviours that they wouldn't do it the wild (pushing leavers)
- animal testing has ethical issues and lack of mundane realism
- innate abilities that adapt a species to its environment
- strengths
- explains wide range of phenomena - language and phobias
- practical applications such as training animals
- findings are easily replicable as controlled experiments
- SKINNER"S BOX
- demonstrates the success of repeated actions through negative and positive reinforcement
- WEISS + WILSON
- operant conditioning has animal training benefits
- TYPES OF CONSEQUENCES
- negative consequence by giving something
- positive punishment
- provides an unpleasant consequence
- negative punishment
- decreases chances of behaviour occurring again
- provides an unpleasant consequence
- positive punishment
- negative consequence by removing something
- doesn't take cognitive factors into account (reasoning)
- weaknesses
- animals learn unnatural behaviours that they wouldn't do it the wild (pushing leavers)
- animal testing has ethical issues and lack of mundane realism
- innate abilities that adapt a species to its environment
- weaknesses
- positive reinforcement - pressing leaver to receive food
- SKINNER"S BOX
- demonstrates the success of repeated actions through negative and positive reinforcement
- negative reinforcement- avoid electric shock by pressing leaver
- punishment - rat gets a shock if it presses the leaver
- SKINNER"S BOX
- positive reinforcement to train tortoises to approach a target
- WEISS + WILSON
- operant conditioning has animal training benefits
- WEISS + WILSON
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