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SKinner
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| View of humans | like machines, empty organisms (deterministic). Allways concious thoughts |
| Focus of psychology | observable behavior only |
| Research subjects + theory influences | rats and pigeons |
| Operant conditioning | behavior shaped by reinforcement |
| Operant Behavior | More important than respondent behavior for understanding behavior |
| Continuous Reinforcement Schedule - Fixed Ratio | Reward every-time button is pressed. Best schedule for quick establishing a behavior |
| Operant & Respondent Behavior | Skinner Distinguished between two types of behavior |
| Triadic Reciprocality | The idea that behavior is determined through the interaction behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors. TRI for the three factors. |
| Succesive Approximations | Used by skinner to explain development of complex human behavior. |
| Primary Reinforcer | Innate, biological, and immediately satisfying. - Food is an example of ... |
| Partial Reinforcement - Variable Ratio | Random button presses. Best schedule for quick establishing a behavior that will continue even when reinforcers aren't given |
| Positive Punishment | Speeding Ticket |
| Reinforcement | Behavior controlled by its consequence |
| Respondent Behavior | Response elicited by a specific stimuls - Automatic or learned - learned EX pavlovs, bell > food |
| Operant Behavior | |
| Secondary Reinforcer | Learned, socially or culturally conditioned, and context-dependent. - ex money, awards |
| Token Economy | Get tokens as rewards, then use the tokens to buy prizes. - best in closed systems - behavior reverts when rewards/tokens stop |
| Fixed-Interval | Employee paid weekly |
| Early Life | Stable, strict rules home life, loved inventing and mechanics. Wanted to be a writer, failed |
| Thorndike's law of effect | Behaviors followed by satisfying consequences (rewards) are more likely to be repeated, while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences (punishments) are less likely to recur. |
| Self Control | Acting to alter the impact of external: - stimulus avoidance - self-administered satiation - Aversive stimulation - self reinforcement |
| Shaping (Successive Approximations) | Reinforce behaviors in successive stages that more close approximate the final desired behavior |
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