EAB3002 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Free operant methodA method in which an organism may repeatedly respond over an extensive period of time The organism is "free" to emit many responses or none at all. More accurately responses can be made without interference by the experimenter (as in trials procedure) Operant classResponses with the same consequences comprise an operant (or response) class. ex.) The response class of turning on the light has many variation in form. Operant rateThe number of responses that occur in...

reflexes When an unconditioned stimulus elicits an unconditioned response (US -> UR), the relationship is called a reflex Latency increase in stimulus intensity->decrease in latency of response threshold there is an intensity at which a stimulus will reliably elicit a response. Below this point, the response will not be elicited. unconditioned reflex (phylogenetic) Unlearned; not dependent on prior (behavioral) history Uniformity of response across members of a given species

ReinforcementThe process of increasing frequency of a behavior/response Occurs when a stimulus CHANGE immediately following a response in the INCREASE in the frequency of that behavior. ReinforcerThe stimulus that behavior/response(s) strengthening is contingent upon. DeprivationRestricting access to a reinforcing event. SatiationRepeated presentations of a reinforcer weaken its effectiveness, and the rate of response declines. Textual BehaviorVerbal operant regulated by verbal stimuli ...

The research on token reinforcement and chimpanzees shows that:All of These: -Token can bridges the interval between earning and spending -Token reinforcement can maintain and train performance on discrimination tasks -Token and food reinforcement are similar in maintaining behavior Research conducted by Fantino and Case (1983) on stimuli linked to feedback found that a stimulus correlated with _____________ did not maintain human observing, but one linked to __________ did.bad news, no ...