PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIOR: ADVANCED STUDY OBJECTIVES: THE MOTIVATING OPERATION Learning is a change in behavior as a function of its consequences. If a response produces a reinforcer, then the next time there is an opportunity for that response to occur, it will occur with a shorter latency (or more frequently for a free-operant response), typically with greater force, greater accuracy, and/or more precise stimulus control (i.e., more correctly). More or less, the opposite is true if the response produces an aversive condition. Learning will occur (some change in behavior will occur) more or less every time the response produces that consequence. However, eventually the behavior will be as fast or as forceful, or as accurate etc., as possible, in which case there is no more opportunity for change in that behavior, no more opportunity for learning to occur. Performance is the occurrence of behavior. Each time the behaver makes the response he is performing. So learning affects the performance of the response, i.e., the latency, force, etc. The learning that occurs now (e.g, with this incidence of reinforcement) affects your performance later. The MO, the “amount of motivation”, affects how much learning occurs with each reinforced response. And the MO also affects the performance of an already learned response or of a response where learning is still occurring. Am I saying it right? Is it clear? Is it correct?
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:05:48 +0000
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