Psy Learning 3

• reward
• after a certain time interval

• Rewards appear after  set number
• of responses

• factory workers paid after every
• 10 cases of product are completed

• Reward after certain number of
• responses, varies from trial to trial

• Rewards appear after fixed
• amount of time, regardless of number of responses

• Rewards appear after a certain amount of
• time, but that amount varies from trial to trial

diminishes the strength of the response it follows

• Punishment applies negative
• Negative reinforcement removes negative

apply stimulus after response without agreement

• removal attractive
• stimulus after response

• Power disappears when threat of punishment is removed
• triggers aggression
• inhibit learning better response
• applied unequally

•swift

•certain

•severe

• Extinction
• Reinforcing
• preferred activities

• Classical conditioning associate (UCS
• + CS) before the response or behavior

Operant conditioning reinforcing (reward) or punishing stimulus after a response or behavior

some forms of learning must be explained as changes in mental processes, rather than as changes in behavior alone

mental representation of physical space

• new responses are acquired after watching others’ behavior and the consequences of
• their behavior

• physical changes strengthen the synapses in
• nerve cells;neural basis of learning