He associates doing something with a certain outcome. Before he left the house today, Leafs defensemen Tim Horton had polished his shoes, just as he had done before every game since the mid-1950s. He’d driven down Bayview Avenue to the Gardens, the same route as he took before every game, wearing the same overcoat. The overcoat had once belonged to Jean Beliveau. Beliveau stood six foot, four inches tall and weighed more than two hundred pounds. Some people had nicknamed him the le Gros Bill. No one would call Tim Horton le Gros Tim, especially when he wore Beliveau’s overcoat. The coat fit Horton like a set of living-room drapes. The sleeves dangled below his fingertips. The hem brushed the top of his shoes, and he could have worn two more overcoats underneath. The looked like a kid dressed up in his dad’s clothes. Horton had taken the coat by mistake one night from an all-star banquet. When it brought him good luck, he kept it. “It was a lucky coat,” said Horton’s wife, Lori. Fashion-conscious herself, she tried to get her husband to wear something more stylish, even buying him two new overcoats one winter. “He wore one of them one night,” she said, “and the Leafs lost the game.” He never wore another overcoat.   What type of learning is Horton displaying? Operant – Horton associates a certain route and wearing a certain coat with winning. Each time he drove a different way or wore a different overcoat, God’s Own Team, the Laffs Leafs lost. He associates doing something with a certain outcome. Now the Leafs just lose…

A hockey goalie flinching as a 90 mile-an-hour slap shot hits him, is showing what type of learning? Non-associative learning, just a simple response to a stimulus.

What type of reinforcement schedule does a hockey goalie work on What type of reinforcement schedule does a hockey goalie work on? (There could be two different ways to answer this question; just be able to defend your answer.) Variable-interval: he doesn’t know how much time the opposing time is going to spend on his side of the ice. So he always needs to be ready. Variable-ratio: he doesn’t know of all shots made, how many he actually has to actively stop, as some of them may go wide of the net.