1. 11/14/14
Pick up a “Reinforcement & Punishment” Worksheet and get started!
Also- pick up a packet!
Agenda
Review Reinforcement/Punishment worksheet
Quick Notes
Read “Cognition’s Influence on Conditioning”
Homework- Classical vs. Operant packet

2. Changing Directions in the Study of Conditioning
(A Fancy way to say “New Developments”)

4. Instinctive Drift
Occurs when an animals innate response tendencies interfere with conditioning processes (Brelands)
Raccoons
Dogs

5. Taste Aversion Conditioned taste aversion
Occurs even after many hours since exposure to the CS (food that makes you sick)
By product of evolutionary history of animals
Learn what not to eat
Some associations are made more quickly than others

6. Arbitrary vs Ecological Stimuli
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
There aren’t normally bell tones-try rattlesnakes
conditioning is an adaptive process that routinely occurs under natural circumstances in service of reproductive fitness

7. Evolutionary Perspectives on Learning
Basic mechanisms of learning are similar across species but they have been modified and adapted over the years to respond to specialized needs

8. LaTent learning and cognitive maps
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

9. Signal relations Rescorla
Environmental stimuli serve as signals and that some stimuli are better, more dependable, signals than others
Predictive value- influential factor

10. Response outcome relations and reinforcement
Reinforcement is not automatic
Strengthened when people think that the response caused the outcome