Learning 2

Nobel behavior/shaping

Behavior can and does emerge through the application of operant principles

Can emerge as a consequence of the reinforcement of successive approximations of a target behavior 

Behavior chaining 

Breaking down complex task into smaller steps. This requires tasks analysis and once defined you can use basic reinforcement to elict each part

Forward chaining

Starts with first behavior and toward final behavior (harder)

Backward chaining

Backward chaining: Starts with last behavior and towards first 

Insight Learning

Unexplained behavior that doesn’t involve learning for the behavior to happen

Ex: Sultan the monkey had the insight to stack boxes and climb them to reach bananas 

Harlow claims insight evolves and overtime it becomes second nature

Superstitious behavior

Coincidental reinforcement: can mislead one to believe inaccurately that behavior has operated on the environment