Operant and Respondent Conditioning Insights

Operant Conditioning

Learning through consequences of behavior.

Respondent Conditioning

Learning through association of stimuli.

The Brelands

Students of Skinner, studied animal training.

Misbehavior of Organisms

Study of limitations in operant conditioning.

Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs)

Innate behaviors triggered by specific stimuli.

Rooting Behavior

Pigs digging with snouts for food.

Autoshaping Procedure

Non-contingent food delivery to shape behavior.

Sign-Tracking

Approaching signals associated with food rewards.

Taste-Aversion Learning

Avoidance of food after illness association.

Biological Preparedness

Innate predisposition to learn certain associations.

Garcia and Koelling Experiment

Studied taste aversion with audiovisual cues.

Conditioned Taste Aversion (CTA)

Learned avoidance of specific tastes.

CS-US Belongingness

Certain stimuli are more easily associated.

Negative Response Contingency

Reinforcement withheld after undesired behavior.

Hearst & Jenkins Experiment

Pigeons ran to light but missed food.

Jenkins & Moore Experiment

Compared food and water as reinforcers.

Pavlovian Conditioning

Learning through pairing conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

Previously neutral stimulus that elicits response.

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

Stimulus that naturally triggers a response.

Inter-Trial Interval (ITI)

Time between successive conditioning trials.