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Introducing.... IVAN BURRHUS FREDERICK (BF) PAVLOV AND SKINNER Your presenters today are Tim Elksnis and Penny Muller.
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Introducing.... IVAN BURRHUS FREDERICK (BF) PAVLOV AND SKINNER Your presenters today are Tim Elksnis and Penny Muller.
References Boeree, C. G. (1974). About behaviourism. web: http://webspace. Ship.edu/cgboer/skinner.html Crowden, J. (2007). VELS, NELS and Pavlov's bells : The ethical imperatives of essential learnings. Idiom, 43(1), 15-21. Kraines, D., & V. (1995). Evolution of learning among Pavlov strategies in a competitive environment with noise. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 39(3), 439-466. Krause, K., Bochner, S., Duchesne, S., & McMaugh, A. (2010). Educational psychology for learning and teaching (3rd edition). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning.
Some key words and their meanings taken from the class set text: Learning Chapter 4 Classical Conditioning: The association of an automatic response with a new stimulus Operants: Voluntary actions, usually goal-directed Respondents: Elicited or reflex reactions to a specific stimulus Positive Reinforcement: Increasing or strengthening the likelihood of a behaviour occurring by contingent presentation of a reward immediately following it. Negative Reinforcement: Increasing the likelihood of a behaviour being repeated by contingently removing an aversive object or activity. Punishment: Weakening or reducing behaviour through contingent use of aversive objects or events. Extinction: Reduction and cessation of a response following the withdrawal of reinforcement.
‘All higher animals modify their behaviour gradually over time in response to positive and negative stimuli.’ - Kraines, Evolution of Learning. P445 http://jcr.sagepub.com