Thursday, September 29, 2011

Summary of Notes (09/22/2011)

-Self efficacy is knowing you have the skills.

-Meichenbaum = self-regulated learning

-shaping = use of cues, signals, or information

-Premack principle = reward if you do something hard. “Grandma’s Rule”

-classical conditioning = Pavlov

Classical

Operant

Pavlov

Unconditional stumuli – food and respond by salivating.

Conditional Stimuli – bell – salivate

Must pair reinforcement with “food” to get them used to conditional stimuli

Skinner, Watson

Little Albert experiment – rabbit experiment, scared of white things after he dropped cymbal (instigated fear response).

Skinner box – push the bar and get a pellet.

How do you know if something is reinforcing? – it is very personal to the individual.

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT: It’s a good thing!

Giving something.

Types

- tangible

- attention

- avoidance

- sensory input

NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT: Not punishment.

Getting rid of something yucky. Ex.) You get an F until you bring in a folder. If you bring in folder you don’t get an F.

Consequences vs. Punishment

Psychodynamic = Freud, Jung, Adler (power is driving factor behind decisions)

Cognitive:

Social Learning Theory

Meichenbaum – self-regulated kids

Albert and Ellis and Aaron Beck à Rational Emotive Behavior Theory

BEHAVIORISM

fixed = happens regulary

variable = random

measure through : intervals or ratios

Intervals = time ratio = number of times

fixed ratio à variable ratio

extinction burst: