Womack Report

November 6, 2008

Learning, November 6 2008

Filed under: Notes,School — Tags: — Phillip Womack @ 10:52 pm

Firing up again.  A little bit of discussion of the Sniffy project.  More next week.Alternatives to aversive conditioning:

  1. Response prevention
  2. Extinction — remove all the reinforcers for the activity, and it should vanish on its own.
  3. Differential Reinforcement — positively reinforce behaviors that are incompatible with the undesired behavior.
  4. Functional Communication Training — teach the subject how to manage his/her own behavior.

Direct vs. Indirect learning.  Direct learning is conventional or operant conditioning.  The behavior has to take place for you to learn it.  You have to practice it and be rewarded.  Indirect learning is learning that can take place by observation of the behavior instead of performance of the behavior.  Behavior will change when you observe someone else doing a behavior differently.

Vicarious reinforcement is reinforcement you get by watching someone else getting reinforced for an action.  It can have a reinforcing effect on your own behavior.

Learning from a model does not require reinforcement.  Indirect learning can occur without the learner being rewarded or punished.  Reinforcement does tend to increase the effect, however.  Also, if the behavior is performed and not reinforced, it will go extinct.

Celebrity status can be considered a case of modeling or indirect learning.

For the sniffy project, we want one project covering magazine training, shaping, extinction, and spontaneous recovery.  Use one rat the whole time.  Get multiple graphs.

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