Edward Thorndike proposed his law of effect after experimenting with animals using these objects as puzzles. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects. Another psychologist who refined Thorndike’s law of effect names some of these objects that were used to study reinforcement in pigeons.
ANSWER: boxes [or chambers; accept Skinner boxes; accept puzzle boxes; accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, operant conditioning chambers]
[10e] Reinforcements and punishments are delivered in the operant form of this process. Ivan Pavlov did not use bells in performing the “classical” form of this process on dogs.
ANSWER: conditioning [accept classical conditioning or operant conditioning; prompt on learning]
[10h] This classical conditioning model claims the strength of a learned association depends on salience times association value. Two namesake Yale psychologists developed this model to explain blocking of new stimuli.
ANSWER: Rescorla–Wagner model [or R-W model]
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