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Theoretical Approaches and Questions in Operant Conditioning
Psychology 3306
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Responses and reinforcers
• How important are responses and reinforcers?
• Thorndike and Skinner would say that it is essential
• Tolman said ‘umm, not completely• Cognitive maps• Latent learning
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So you don’t need a reinforcer?
• Perhaps it strengthens the S-R bond, but is not necessary
• Maybe it becomes part of a representation?• Colwill and Rescorla, 1985• Chain - > water• Lever - > food• Food - > poison
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That sound you hear is Skinner spinning in his grave
• Rats won’t press the lever!• Therefore, the response and reinforcer have
been connected, but not directly• It seems that associations are made between
all three parts of the three term contingency
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Are there 2 types of learning?
• Yes, operant and classical• No, it is all associative learning• What a stupid question….
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Pushing the limits
• Heart rate conditioning• Biofeedback• Not always successful
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So what is a reinforcer?
• Some event that increases the likelihood of….• ENOUGH!• Maybe it is need or drive reduction?• Premack’s ideas• Is food the reinforcer, or is it the act of eating?
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Premack’s principle
• Given 2 responses arranged in an operant-conditioning procedure, more probable behaviors will reinforce less probable behaviors; less probable response will not reinforce more probable ones
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• Premack (1963) - study in Cebus monkeys • Lever Pressing (L) : highest probability • Door Opening (D) : medium probability • Plunger Pulling (P) : lowest probability • reinforces D; L reinforces P; P does NOT reinforce
either D or L, etc. • “Premackian reinforcers”: activities that act as
reinforcers (reading, playing) • Useful (and less costly) in token economies than
object-based reinforcers
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Applications• Mitchell & Stoffelmayr (1973) use Premack’s principle in
schizophrenics • Reinforcement items like candy, cigarettes, etc. usually not
effective in schizophrenic patients • Sitting is a highly probable behavior in negative-symptom
schizophrenics (catatonia, social withdrawal) • therapists made sitting contingent on doing small amount of
work or activity; improved their negative symptoms • In unruly nursery-school children, high probability behaviors
(running around, screaming) made contingent on low probability behaviors (sitting quietly, paying attention)
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Behavioural economics
• Open economies• Closed economies• Elasticity of demand• And behavioural ecology
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Stimulus Control
• Relationship between S and R• Reynolds (1961) - Attention in the pigeon • 2 pigeons reinforced for pecking to compound
stimulus of white triangle on red backgroundprojected on response key
• rate of pecking was then observed in each subject to a white triangle and a red background singularly
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Why do you get a gradient?
• Sort of the study of generalization and discrimination
• How do you get data?– Probe trials– Test phases– Both done in extinction
• Is it a property of the nervous system?– Pavlov– Hubel and Wiesel
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Perhaps it is learning?
• Lashley and Wade figured it was how the animal was trained
• Borne out by Jenkins and Harrison’s work• Non differential• Presence absence• Explicit training
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Duck you
• Peterson (1960) and his ducklings, only saw yellow
• They did not show gradients with colour!• Oops• Probably depends on the modality and the
species being tested really• Or, could be relational Kohler and his chickens
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• Gonzalez, Gentry, & Bitterman (1954) - chimpanzee had to pick among 9 squares of varying sizes
• Squares 1,5, & 9 presented, subject reinforced for choosing # 5 (intermediate size)
• on test trial chimp reinforced no matter which square chosen • if given 4, 7, & 9 relational theory says subject will choose # 7,
absolute theory says subjectwill choose square closest # 5 ( # 4)
• subjects usually chose the intermediate size square of whichever three squares were presented
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Peak Shift
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OK, so that is odd
• Why does that happen?• Excitatory gradient• Inhibitory grandient• As the Violent Femmes
would say, you gotta add it up
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Bird brain is not an insult
• Concept learning• Natural needed?• How long lasting• Delius (1982)• Honig and Stewart (1988)• The field of comparative cognition really grew
out of much of this stuff