CH2 – Foundations of Individual Behavior Ability * Everyone has strengths and weaknesses that make them superior or inferior to others * Ability refers to an individuals capacity to perform various tasks * Intellectual * Mental activities * Assessed by GMA (General Mental Ability)‚ takes into account aptitude‚ verbal comp‚ perceptual speed‚ inductive/deductive reasoning‚ spatial visualization‚ memory * High score in one cat usually means high score
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stress-free and profitable working atmosphere. If an employee is engaging in behavior to achieve something (positive reinforcement)‚ he or she will constantly try to improve in order to attain more of it. But if an employee is trying to avoid a penalty‚ he or she will only work hard enough to avoid the consequence‚ essentially producing only the bare minimum. Positive Reinforcement If you want to improve your performance at something‚ or if you want to create new good habits‚ one very successful
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Chacon‚ Gerald Period 1 Biggs 4 Jan 2010 Learning through conditioning Learning is an important skill that all organisms must acquire in order to survive or fall prey to Darwinism’s main idea of survival of the fittest. Learning is the long lasting effect of a change in behavior. This would constrict the application of learning conditioning to a few applications. The three most recognizable applications are classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning‚ and learning by observation
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Learning Learning is a permanent change in behaviour caused by experience. The learner does not need to have the experience directly; we can also learn by observing others . It is an ongoing process. Our knowledge of the world is continually being revised as we are exposed to new stimuli and receiving ongoing feedback that allows us to modify our behaviour when we find ourselves in a similar position again Psychologists who have studied learning have developed advanced therories on the process
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event may be. Reinforcement and Punishment: Reinforcement increases the likelyhood of the behaviour repeating. Giving a dog a treat for coming in after going to the bathroom outside. Removing chores when a teenager obeys their curfew. Punishment decreased the likelyhood of the behaviour repeating. Giving a child time-out for hitting a kid in class. Continuous Versus Partial Reinforcement The behaviour could likely stop as well. Schedules of Reinforcement Giving reinforcement
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Behaviorism Behaviorism can perhaps be best summed up by the following quote from the famous psychologist John B. Watson: "Give me a dozen healthy infants‚ well-formed‚ and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor‚ lawyer‚ artist‚ merchant-chief and‚ yes‚ even beggar-man and thief‚ regardless of his talents‚ penchants‚ tendencies‚ abilities‚ vocations‚ and race of his ancestors
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customers after later ones experience this exchange service ‘live’‚ and happily and lucratively turn back home. Thus‚ the Operant Conditioning itself can occur indirectly through the Vicarious Learning by observing the consequences (observed positive reinforcement or observed punishment) of others behavior and then modifying own demeanor according to what have been observed. Hence‚ the Vicarious Learning doesn’t deal with conducting the behavior or experiencing consequences straightforwardly‚ but with observing
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stimulus that elicits a response after association with reinforcement (in contrast to related stimuli not associated with reinforcement) • reinforcer: in operant conditioning‚ any event that strengthens the behavior it follows • positive reinforcement: increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli‚ such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that‚ when presented after a response‚ strengthens the response • negative reinforcement: increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative
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responses could be detected‚ recorded and followed up with reinforcements‚ all by automatic apparatus. Operant conditioning is a concept also developed by B.F. Skinner‚ who said “Psychology is about behavior‚ not about the mind‚ and not about the nervous system. It deals only with variables that can be directly observed.” He emphasized on the role of reinforcement and punishment in shaping behavior and came up with the schedules of reinforcement. Plus‚ rather than focusing on things that occur before
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stimulus-reinforcer relation in the three term contingency‚ and independent of the response-reinforcer relation (Nevin & Grace‚ 2000). General findings are that responses maintained on richer schedules of reinforcement are more resistant to change than those maintained on leaner schedules of reinforcement (Nevin & Grace‚ 2000). Resistance to change is often measured as responses in a particular session following disruption as proportion of an average of baseline‚ which accounts for differences in the baseline
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