Learning by reinforcement

Genre: Television

Year Published: 1957

Creator: Edwin G. Boring Joseph C. Stevens Thomas K. Sisson Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council WGBH-TV

Format: 16mm

Description: Discusses and demonstrates through film clips the concept of learning by reinforcement. Describes the shaping of behavior by rewarding of a correct action when it occurs by chance. Illustrates the nature of reinforcement by reward, the disappearance of a learned response when reward is discontinued, and the learning of discriminative and cooperative behavior. Uses filmed sequences of Skinner's experimental work with pigeons. (WGBH-TV)


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