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Explain behavioral bliss point so everyone understands In other…
Explain behavioral bliss point so everyone understands
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In other words,
Behavioral Bliss Point?
– Every organism has a preferred (optimal) distribution of possible activities called the behavioral bliss point.?
– Defend against challenges to their bliss point through response allocation: rate of one response to its preferred level, without moving to other response too far from its preferred level.
Imposing an Instrumental Contingency?
– Ex: The introduction of an INSTRUMENTAL CONTINGENCY between studying and being on Facebook.
– If the student studies 10 minutes, he gets 10 minutes on Facebook. If he studies 1 hour, he gets 1 hour on Facebook.?
– Individuals generally define their response allocation against challenges to the unrestricted baseline or bliss point condition. But, the baseline response allocation cannot be reestablished after an instrumental contingency has been introduced (you are stuck with it).?
– Defending the baseline study or defending the baseline Facebook time both have their disadvantages. That is often the dilemma posed by an instrumental contingency. How this dilemma is resolved is the central issue of the response-allocation approach.?
– Staddon proposed a MINIMUM-DEVIATION MODEL of behavioral regulation to solve this dilemma. According to this model, introduction of a response-reinforcer contingency causes organisms to redistribute their behavior between the instrumental and contingent responses in a way that minimizes the total deviation of the two responses form the unrestricted baseline or bliss point.
– For situations in which the free baseline cannot be achieved in the face of a schedule constraint, the minimum-deviation model provides one view of how organisms settle for the next best thing.
Explanations of Reinforcement Effects?
– A REINFORCEMENT EFFECT is identified by an increase in the occurrence of an instrumental response above the level of that behavior in the absence of the response-reinforcer contingency.?
– Access to the reinforcer is restricted; to gain more opportunity to engage with it, the individual has to perform more of the instrumental response.?
– Thus, increased performance of the instrumental response (a reinforcement effect) results from a reallocation of responses that minimize deviations from the free baseline or bliss point.?
– The accurate prediction of the effects of an instrumental conditioning procedure requires considering the broader context of the organism’s response options.?
– Class notes. Reinforcement effect increase in occurrence of instrumental response above the level of that behavior in the absence of the response-reinforcer contingency.?
– Ex: study time increases more than would occur normally, as a result of making TV watching contingent upon studying.
