Operant Conditioning What is Operant Conditioning Operant Conditioning
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Operant Conditioning
What is Operant Conditioning?
Operant Conditioning • A type of learning in which the frequency of a behavior depends on the consequence that follows that behavior • The frequency will increase if the consequence is reinforcing to the subject. • The frequency will decrease if the consequence is not reinforcing to the subject.
Module 16: Operant Conditioning The Law of Effect
Edward Thorndike (1874 -1949) • Author of the law of effect • Behaviors with favorable consequences will occur more frequently. • Behaviors with unfavorable consequences will occur less frequently. • Created puzzle boxes for research on cats
Thorndike’s Puzzle Box
B. F. Skinner (1904 -1990) • Developed the fundamental principles and techniques of operant conditioning and devised ways to apply them in the real world • Designed the Skinner Box, or operant chamber
Reinforcement/Punishment • Reinforcement - Any consequence that increases the likelihood of the behavior it follows • Punishment - Any consequence that decreases the likelihood of the behavior it follows • The subject determines if a consequence is reinforcing or punishing
Module 16: Operant Conditioning Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement • Anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with a desirable event or state • The subject receives something they want • Will strengthen the behavior
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement • Anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with the removal of an undesirable event or state • Something the subject doesn’t like is removed • Will strengthen the behavior
Negative Reinforcement
Positive/Negative Reinforcement
Module 16: Operant Conditioning Reinforcement: Immediate Versus Delayed Reinforcement
Immediate/Delayed Reinforcement • Immediate reinforcement is more effective than delayed reinforcement • Ability to delay gratification predicts higher achievement
Module 16: Operant Conditioning Reinforcement: Primary Versus Secondary Reinforcement
Primary Reinforcement • Something that is naturally reinforcing • Examples: food, warmth, water, etc. • The item is reinforcing in and of itself
Secondary Reinforcement • Something that a person has learned to value or finds rewarding because it is paired with a primary reinforcer • Money is a good example
Module 16: Operant Conditioning Punishment: The Process of Punishment
Types of Punishment • An undesirable event following a behavior • A desirable state or event ends following a behavior
Module 16: Operant Conditioning Punishment: Problems With Punishment
Negative Effects of Punishment • Doesn’t prevent the undesirable behavior when away from the punisher • Can lead to fear, anxiety, and lower selfesteem • Children who are punished physically may learn to use aggression as a means to solve problems.
Positive Effects of Punishment • Punishment can effectively control certain behaviors. • Especially useful if teaching a child not to do a dangerous behavior • Most still suggest reinforcing an incompatible behavior rather than using punishment
Some Reinforcement Procedures: Shaping/Framing
Shaping • Reinforcement of behaviors that are more and more similar to the one you want to occur • Technique used to establish a new behavior
Framing • Psychological framing defines an idea, issue or reality based upon context. The concept of framing disputes theory of rational choice. The experiments of the researchers Tversky and Khneman in 1981 suggest that the way a decision is presented has a large impact upon the choices that result.
Module 16: Operant Conditioning Some Reinforcement Procedures: Discrimination and Extinction
Discrimination • The ability to distinguish between two similar stimuli • Learning to respond to one stimuli but not to a similar stimuli
Extinction • In operant conditioning, the loss of a conditioned behavior when consequences no longer follow it. • The subject no longer responds since the reinforcement or punishment has stopped.
Module 16: Operant Conditioning Schedules of Reinforcement: Continuous Reinforcement
Continuous reinforcement • A schedule of reinforcement in which a reward follows every correct response • Most useful way to establish a behavior • The behavior will extinguish quickly once the reinforcement stops.
Module 16: Operant Conditioning Schedules of Reinforcement: Partial Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement • A schedule of reinforcement in which a reward follows only some correct responses • Includes the following types: – Fixed-interval and variable interval – Fixed-ratio and variable-ratio
Fixed-Interval Schedule • A partial reinforcement schedule that rewards only the first correct response after some defined period of time • i. e. weekly quiz in a class
Variable-Interval Schedule • A partial reinforcement that rewards the first correct response after an unpredictable amount of time • i. e. “pop” quiz in a class
Fixed-Ratio Schedule • A partial reinforcement schedule that rewards a response only after some defined number of correct responses • The faster the subject responds, the more reinforcements they will receive.
Variable-Ratio Schedule • A partial reinforcement schedule that rewards an unpredictable number of correct responses • This schedule is very resistant to extinction. • Sometimes called the “gambler’s schedule”; similar to a slot machine
Schedules of Reinforcement
Module 16: Operant Conditioning New Understandings of Operant Conditioning: The Role of Cognition
Latent Learning • Learning that takes place in absence of an apparent reward
Cognitive Map • A mental representation of a place • Experiments showed rats could learn a maze without any reinforcements
Overjustification Effect • The effect of promising a reward for doing what someone already likes to do • The reward may lessen and replace the person’s original, natural motivation, so that the behavior stops if the reward is eliminated
Module 16: Operant Conditioning New Understandings of Operant Conditioning: The Role of Biology
Biological Predisposition • Research suggests some species are biologically predisposed to learn specific behaviors
The End
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- Classical and operant conditioning differences
- What is classical conditioning example
- Classical conditioning vs operant conditioning
- The albert experiment
- Operant conditioning examples
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- Operant conditioning three phase model
- Primary vs secondary reinforcers
- Overjustification effect
- Skinner experiment
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- Primary vs secondary reinforcers
- A long lasting change in behavior as a result of experience
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- Strengths and weaknesses of social learning theory
- Operant conditioning edward thorndike
- Example of fixed ratio schedule
- Insight learning theory
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- Respondent and operant conditioning
- Educational implications of operant conditioning
- Principles of operant conditioning
- Operant conditioning and personality
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning types
- Operant conditioning theory
- Social learning theory vs operant conditioning
- Applications of operant conditioning
- Operant conditioning examples
- What is intermittent reinforcement
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- Operant conditioning terminology
- Order of classical conditioning
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- Contrapreparedness examples
- Applications of operant conditioning
- Puzzle box thorndike
- Thinning operant conditioning
- Operant conditioning definition
- Variable reinforcement schedule
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- Operant conditioning in parenting
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- Respondent vs operant conditioning