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Transcript
Maze Learning
Instrumental / Operant Conditioning
EXP 4404
Historical Background
Historical Background
Z B. F. Skinner
Z E. L. Thorndike
Š cats learning to escape from puzzle boxes
Š maze learning (chicks, rats, etc.)
Puzzle Box
Š development of the operant conditioning chamber
Š study of schedules of reinforcement
Skinner in Laboratory
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Instrumental Conditioning:
Maze Learning Tasks
Rat in Skinner Box
Goal
Box 1
Goal
Box 2
Start Box
Defining Reinforcement & Punishment
Event Occurs
Frequency of
Behavior
Increases
Frequency of
Behavior
Decreases
Event Omitted
Negative
Positive
Reinforcement Reinforcement
Appetitive Event
Aversive Event
Positive
Punishment
Negative
Punishment or
Omission
Aversive Events
Appetitive Events
Instrumental Conditioning:
Straight Runway
START
BOX
Ö
GOAL
BOX
Discrimination Learning
Z Discriminative Stimulus
Š stimulus presented to signal the operation of a given
schedule of reinforcement
Š stimulus comes to control behavior
• behavior occurs in the presence of the stimulus
• behavior does not occur when the stimulus is
absent
Z Application: Evaluating the perceptual
abilities of animals
Escape & Avoidance Learning
Z Escape
Š Signal Presented, followed by delivery of shock
Š Animal must make a response to terminate a shock
• e.g., press a bar to turn the shock off
Z Avoidance
Š Signal Presented, followed by delivery of shock after
a short interval
Š If a response is made before the end of the interval,
no shock will be delivered
• e.g., press a bar to prevent onset of the shock
Š Passage of time can serve at the signal
• e.g., rat must respond every 2 sec to avoid shock
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Operant Procedures
Z Rats: Bar Press Response
Š dependent measure: rate of responding
Schedules of Partial Reinforcement:
Fixed Schedules
Z Fixed Ratio Schedule
Š 1 reinforcement delivered for completion of a specific
number of responses
Z Pigeons: Key Peck Response
Š dependent measure: rate of key pecking
Z Human Research
Š may examine key pressing, lever pressing, etc.
Š Applied research usually targets some practical
behavior
Shaping
Z Reinforce successive approximations of the
target response.
Z Shaping language use in autistic children
Š vocalization
Š vocalization that sounds like a target word
Š increasingly clearer approximations to the target
word
Š correct articulation of the target word
Š once vocabulary established, begin work on
meaningful sentences
Delivery of Reinforcement
Š FR 10
Š Post-Reinforcement Pause
Z Fixed Interval Schedule
Š reinforcement is delivered for completion of the first
response at the end of a defined period of time
Š FI 30 sec
Š Scalloping
Schedules of Partial Reinforcement:
Variable Schedules
ZVariable Ratio Schedule
Š 1 reinforcement delivered on average for each
specified number of responses
Š actual delivery of reinforcement occurs after variable
numbers of responses
Š VR 10
Z Variable Interval Schedule
Š reinforcement delivered after the first response
made following a variable time interval
Š average duration of the interval defines the schedule
Š VI 30 sec
DRL & DRH Schedules of Reinforcement
Z DRL Schedules - differential reinforcement of low
Z Continuous Reinforcement
Š reinforcement delivered after every targeted
response
Z Intermittent (Partial) Reinforcement
Š only a percentage of the targeted responses are
reinforced
Š can produce higher rates of responding
Š responding is more resistant to extinction
rates of responding
Š DRL 1 min
• responses made sooner than 1 minute after last
response reset clock (increases the delay)
Z DRH Schedules - differential reinforcement of high
rates of responding
Š DRH 30 / min
• animal must make at least 30 responses within a
minute
• slower response rates will reset the interval and
prior responses will be useless for earning
reinforcement
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Multiple and Mixed Schedules
Z Multiple Schedules
Š chain two or more schedules
Š each schedule will be signaled by a different
stimulus
Š VI 25 sec FR 20
Z Mixed Schedules
Š chain two or more schedules
Š no signal presented as the animal moves from one
schedule to the next in the chain
Concurrent Schedules
Z Several schedules are in operation at the same
time
Z Each schedule is associated with a response on
a particular device
Š two levers, one governed by VI 15 sec, one governed
by FR 20
Z Used to study choice behavior
Š matching law
Š the rate of responding to each device in a way that
will match the proportion of reinforcements available
on each schedule
Factors that Influence Rate of Responding
Z Magnitude of the Reinforcement
Z Quality of the Reinforcement
Aversive Control of Behavior:
When is punishment effective?
ZDeliver punishment immediately after the target
behavior
Š short delays minimize confusion about which behavior is
being punished
Z Punishment must be severe enough to suppress the
targeted behavior
Z Punishment must be delivered consistently
Z Make punishment contingent on only one target
behavior at a time
Š punishing multiple behaviors dilutes the effect
Z Alternate behaviors that earn reinforcement must be
available
Negative Side Effects of Punishment
Z Generalized suppression of all behavior
Z Punishers elicit anger and aggressive behavior
toward the source of punishment
Z Motivates deceptive behavior
Š successful deception Öescape or avoidance of
punishment
Z Problem of observational learning
Š person delivering the punishment serves as a model
for the use of aggressive behavior to solver problems
Learned Helplessness
Overmeir & Seligman (1967)
Z Dogs first received unavoidable & inescapable shock
Z Next, dogs were given avoidance training
Š jumping from one side of the apparatus to the other
Z Contrast Effects
Š Crespi (1942)
would now terminate shock and timely jumping
would allow the dog to avoid shock
Z Dogs exposed to noncontingent shock were impaired
in their ability to learn an avoidance response
Z Delay of the Reinforcement
Z These dogs also displayed passive, depressed behavior
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Application: Behavioral Training Methods
(Pryor, 1984)
Four “Bad Fairies”
ZEliminate behavior by physically restraining the
subject or by eliminating the subject.
ZPunish the target behavior.
Z Use negative reinforcement.
Z Extinction.
Application: Behavioral Training Methods
(Pryor, 1984)
Four “Good Fairies”
Z Reinforce an incompatible behavior.
Z Put the behavior on cue. Reinforce the
behavior in the presence of the cue only.
Š Behavior will extinguish in absence of the cue.
Š Once under control of the cue, stop presenting the
cue
Z Reinforce absence of the behavior.
Š Reinforce any other acceptable behavior
Z Identify and change the motivation driving the
behavior.
Role of Biology
Z Bolles (1969) Species-specific defense
responses
Š some responses are learned more quickly as operants
than are other responses
Z Instinctive Drift (Breland & Breland, 1961)
Š intrusion of instinctive behavior that disrupts
learning an operant response
Z Reinforcement Centers in the brain (Olds &
Milner, 1954)
Š electrical stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle
can have a potent reinforcing effect
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