Theories of Reinforcement  

Oleh:

Lieberman, David A.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Human Learning and Memory, page 241-286.
Topik: Reinforcement; Cognitive Rejoinder; Evaluation
Fulltext: Theories of Reinforcement.pdf (348.73KB)

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From the very beginning of the study of reinforcement, there has been con?ict between two fundamentally different interpretations. The ?rst, exempli?ed by Thorndike, is that reinforcement is essentially a very simple process. When Thorndike placed his cats in the puzzle box for the ?rst time, they struggled frantically to escape and reach the food dish outside. Eventually, after 8–10 minutes of scrambling about, a cat might accidentally contact the release mechanism and escape. If the cat formed a rational appreciation of the situation, he argued, it should repeat this response immediately on subsequent trials: If there were in these animals any power of inference, however rudimentary, however sporadic, however dim, there should have appeared among the multitude some cases when an animal, seeing through the situation, knows the proper act, does it, and from then on does it immediately upon being confronted with the situation. There ought, that is, to be a sudden vertical descent in the time-curve.

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