Operant Conditioning

• what does positive reinforcement lead to?

  repeated behaviour
• what is positive reinforcement?

  receiving something desirable from a behaviour
• what is negative reinforcement?

  Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.
• what does negative reinforcement lead to?

  repeated behaviour
• what is punishment?

  receiving something undesirable from a behaviour committed
• what does punishment lead to?

  reduced behaviour
• what was Skinner's Rat Experiment?

  • Operant conditioning
  • to see whether rats could learn behaviour through consequence
• what was the positive reinforcement in Skinner's experiment?

  pressing the lever to get food
• what was the repeated behaviour from the positive reinforcement in Skinner's experiment?

  lever pressing
• what was the negative reinforcement in Skinner's Rat experiment?

  pressing the lever to stop the floor from being electrocuted
• what was the repeated behaviour from the negative reinforcement in Skinner's experiment?

  pressing the lever when the light is on
• what was the punishment in Skinner's Experiment?

  getting electrocuted when the lever isn't pressed
• what was the result of the punishment in Skinner's experiment?

  rats stopped pressing the lever