Download Changing Directions in the Study of Conditioning

 Pick
up a “Reinforcement & Punishment”
Worksheet and get started!
 Also- pick up a packet!
 Agenda
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Review Reinforcement/Punishment worksheet
Quick Notes
Read “Cognition’s Influence on Conditioning”
Homework- Classical vs. Operant packet
(A Fancy way to say “New
Developments”)
 Occurs
when an animals innate response
tendencies interfere with conditioning
processes (Brelands)
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Raccoons
Dogs
 Conditioned
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taste aversion
Occurs even after many hours since exposure to
the CS (food that makes you sick)
By product of evolutionary history of animals
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Learn what not to eat
Some associations are made more quickly than
others
 Michael
Domjan
 We normally study things that are largely
unrelated- thus there is a gap in our
understanding of how learning takes place in
the real world
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There aren’t normally bell tones-try rattlesnakes
conditioning is an adaptive process that
routinely occurs under natural circumstances
in service of reproductive fitness
 Basic
mechanisms of learning are similar
across species but they have been modified
and adapted over the years to respond to
specialized needs
 Edward
G. Tolman
 Rats with reinforcement (3 Groups A,B, & C)
 Latent
Learning- learning that is not
apparent form the behavior when it first
occurs
 Cognitive
Map- mental representation of the
spatial layout
 Rescorla
 Environmental
stimuli serve as signals and
that some stimuli are better, more
dependable, signals than others
 Predictive value- influential factor
 Reinforcement
is not automatic
 Strengthened when people think that the
response caused the outcome