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psych learning
principles of learning exam 2 lecture 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Three components in operant conditioning | Discriminative Stimuli, Response, and Consequences |
| Discriminative stimulus | Stimulus in the presence of which some target response is reinforced/punished and in the absence of which the target response has no consequences Ex: a police car on the side of the road is a discriminative stimulus that speeding will be punished |
| An event is a reinforcer if: | It follows a behavior The future probability of the behavior increases |
| An event is a punisher if: | ā It follows a behavior ā The future probability of the behavior decreases |
| consequences | punishers or reinforcers |