operant conditioning.

• what is operant conditioning?

  learning through consequence (bf skinner).
• what is the idea of it?

  a behaviour can be increased or decreased in it's likelihood of being repeated through means of punishment or reinforcement which can be positive or negative.
• what is positive reinforcement?


  increasing the likelihood and encouraging a behaviour by presenting a reward for it.
• what is negative reinforcement?


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• what is positive punishment?


  implication of an aversive stimulus to stop a behaviour.
• what is negative punishment?


  taking something away that would normally be a reward.
• what is supporting evidence for oc?

  vaughan et al - aimed to see if cows could be taught to urinate, using 12 calves in a CC group and OC group. CC calves did not significantly do better than control group but OC did. Skinner box -
• what is opposing to slt?


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