Instrumental or operant conditioning

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Instrumental or operant conditioning

The instrumental paradigm

More similarities

What is associated?

Colwill and Rescorla studies

Learning without reinforcement(cf. sensory preconditioning)

Secondary reinforcement(cf. second-order conditioning)

Effects of secondary reinforcers

The CS in instrumental learning

The peak shift

More observations on the CS

Discrimination learning makes a dimension relevant

Concept learning: Dimensions

Shift learning

Shift learning

Shift learning

Shift learning

Reversal shift is intradimensional; nonreversal shift is extradimensional (changes dimension)

Concept learning: Categories

Category learning in humans

What is the CR ?

Predator learning

Autoshaping or sign tracking

Contiguity vs. contingency, again

Hammond’s (1980) results

More contingency-contiguity research

Learned helplessness

Associative bias

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