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Operant Operant ConditioningConditioningChapter 7, Lecture 3Chapter 7, Lecture 3
“Operant conditioning experiments have donefar more than teach us how to pull habits outof a rat.”
- David Myers
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Operant & Classical Conditioning
1. Classical conditioning forms associations between stimuli (CS and US). Operant conditioning, on the other hand, forms an association between behaviors and the resulting events.
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Operant & Classical Conditioning
2. Classical conditioning involves respondent behavior that occurs as an automatic response to a certain stimulus. Operant conditioning involves operant behavior, a behavior that operates on the environment, producing rewarding or punishing stimuli.
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Skinner’s Experiments
Skinner’s experiments extend Thorndike’s thinking, especially his law of effect. This law states that rewarded behavior is likely to occur
again.
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Operant Chamber
Using Thorndike's law of effect as a starting point, Skinner developed the Operant chamber,
or the Skinner box, to study operant conditioning.
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Operant Chamber
The operant chamber, or Skinner box, comes with a bar or key that an animal
manipulates to obtain a reinforcer like food or water. The bar or key
is connected to devices that record the
animal’s response.
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ShapingShaping is the operant conditioning procedure in
which reinforcers guide behavior towards the desired target behavior through successive approximations.
A rat shaped to sniff mines. A manatee shaped to discriminateobjects of different shapes, colors and sizes.
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Types of ReinforcersReinforcement: Any event that strengthens the behavior it follows. A heat lamp positively reinforces a meerkat’s behavior in the cold.
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Examples of Negative Reinforcement
• Taking aspirin to relieve a headache.
• Hurrying home in the winter to get out of thecold.
• Giving in to an argument or to a dog’s begging.
• Fanning oneself to escape the heat.
• Leaving a movie theater if the movie is bad.
• Smoking in order to relieve anxiety.
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Examples of Negative Reinforcement
• Feigning illness in order to avoid school.
• Following prison rules in order to be releasedfrom confinement.
• Turning down the volume of a very loud radio.
• Putting up an umbrella to escape the rain.
• Saying “uncle” to stop being beaten.
• Putting on a car seatbelt to stop an irritatingbuzz.
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1. Primary Reinforcer: An innately reinforcing stimulus like food or drink.
2. Conditioned Reinforcer: A learned reinforcer that gets its reinforcing power through association with the primary reinforcer.
Primary & Secondary Reinforcers
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1. Immediate Reinforcer: A reinforcer that occurs instantly after a behavior. A rat gets a food pellet for a bar press.
2. Delayed Reinforcer: A reinforcer that is delayed in time for a certain behavior. A paycheck that comes at the end of a week.
Immediate & Delayed Reinforcers
We may be inclined to engage in small immediate reinforcers (watching TV) rather than large delayed reinforcers
(getting an A in a course) which require consistent study.
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Reinforcement Schedules
1. Continuous Reinforcement: Reinforces the desired response each time it occurs.
2. Partial Reinforcement: Reinforces a response only part of the time. Though this results in slower acquisition in the beginning, it shows greater resistance to extinction later on.
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Ratio Schedules
1.Fixed-ratio schedule: Reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses. e.g., piecework pay.
2.Variable-ratio schedule: Reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses. This is hard to extinguish because of the unpredictability. (e.g., behaviors like gambling, fishing.)
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Interval Schedules
1.Fixed-interval schedule: Reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed. (e.g., preparing for an exam only when the exam draws close.)
2.Variable-interval schedule: Reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals, which produces slow, steady responses. (e.g., pop quiz.)
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Schedules of Reinforcement
Let’s practice with Handout 7-5…
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Punishment
An aversive event that decreases thebehavior it follows.
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Punishment
1. Results in unwanted fears.2. Conveys no information to the organism.3. Justifies pain to others.4. Causes unwanted behaviors to reappear
in its absence.5. Causes aggression towards the agent.6. Causes one unwanted behavior to appear
in place of another.
Although there may be some justification for occasional punishment (Larzelaere &
Baumrind, 2002), it usually leads to negative effects.
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Extending Skinner’s Understanding
Skinner believed in inner thought processes and biological underpinnings, but many psychologists criticize him for
discounting them.
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Cognition & Operant Conditioning
Evidence of cognitive processes during operant learning comes from rats during
a maze exploration in which they navigate the maze without an obvious
reward. Rats seem to develop cognitive maps, or mental representations, of the
layout of the maze (environment).
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Latent LearningSuch cognitive maps are based on latent learning, which becomes apparent only
when an incentive is given (Tolman & Honzik, 1930).
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Intrinsic Motivation
Intrinsic Motivation: The desire to perform a behavior for its own sake.
Extrinsic Motivation: The desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishments.
Let’s read about the “Overjustification Effect”
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Biological Predisposition
Biological constraints predispose organisms to learn associations
that are naturally adaptive.
Breland and Breland (1961) showed that
animals drift towards their biologically
predisposed instinctive behaviors. Marian Breland Bailey
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Skinner’s LegacySkinner argued that behaviors were shaped by
external influences instead of inner thoughts and feelings. Critics argued that Skinner
dehumanized people by neglecting their free will.
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Applications of Operant Conditioning
Skinner introduced the concept of teaching machines that shape learning in small steps and provide reinforcements
for correct rewards.
In School
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Applications of Operant Conditioning
Reinforcers affect productivity. Many companies now allow employees to share
profits and participate in company ownership.
At work
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Applications of Operant Conditioning
At Home
In children, reinforcing good behavior increases the occurrence of these behaviors. Ignoring unwanted behavior decreases their
occurrence.
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Operant vs. Classical Conditioning
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HomeworkO.C. Questions (10 pts)
“What punishment often teaches, said Skinner,is how to avoid it. Most psychologists nowfavor an emphasis on reinforcement: Noticepeople doing something right and affirm themfor it.”
- David Myers