CHAPTER 6.6: Operant Conditioning

Question 1

what is operant conditioning

Answer 1

how punishment/reward changes behaviour learned by consequence

Question 2

what is the difference between classical and operant conditioning

Answer 2

classical - involuntary response (ex salivating)

operant - voluntary

Question 3

what is the law of effect

Answer 3

developed by edward thorndike

idea that responses followed by satisfaction happen again, and those that do not get satisfaction after are less likely to happen

Question 4

who coined operant conditioning

Answer 4

BF skinner

Question 5

what are operant boxes

Answer 5

chamber that u put animal in and u can get it to behave in various ways.

ex. can show bird two diff pics, if they are different we want them to start pecking the screen, if they are the same they will not peck!

Question 6

what is reinforcement

Answer 6

when a situation causes a behaviour to become more likely

Question 7

what is punishment

Answer 7

when a situation causes a behaviour to become less likely

Question 8

what is a primary reinforcer

Answer 8

stimuli that satisfy basic needs.

ex. food and social validation

Question 9

what are secondary reinforcers

Answer 9

stimuli that acquire their value thru learning (ex. money, it means nothing to a baby, we have to learn its value!)

Question 10

what what part of brain do reinforcers stimulate?

Answer 10

nucleus accumbens