First, please note this video is on operant learning, rather than Pavlovian. Operant is the type of learning where voluntary behavior is influenced by the consequences. Pavlovian is often used to refer to reflexive associations developed through experience, though a really pedantic behaviorist will correct me and say that Pavlovian is used *specifically* to refer to conditioned associations with food, so it's best to refer to conditioning involuntary behavior as Respondent Conditioning. Second, shaping is the building up of a new response through the reinforcement of successive approximations towards a target behavior. This term is not often used in respondent conditioning. In operant conditioning, shaping refines behavior. For example, teach language by reinforcing any time a noise is uttered, then only those noses that share some similarity with a target word (like 'bah bah' for 'bottle), then refine the next criterion for reinforcement, etc., until the learner says the target word ('bottle'). Shaping can also occur unintentionally, and for undesirable behavior. For example, you have a fight with your significant other, you make up and are emotionally and physically affectionate toward one another. The next time, the fight goes a little longer or gets a little louder, but then you make up. If emotional and physical affection are reinforcers and fighting is a sure-fire way to contact those reinforcers, you could easily see how fighting would increase in frequency or even escalate in magnitude to contact the reinforcer.
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I want to know,
Is, In Pavlovian conditioning, shaping is just opposite to extinction?
First, please note this video is on operant learning, rather than Pavlovian. Operant is the type of learning where voluntary behavior is influenced by the consequences. Pavlovian is often used to refer to reflexive associations developed through experience, though a really pedantic behaviorist will correct me and say that Pavlovian is used *specifically* to refer to conditioned associations with food, so it's best to refer to conditioning involuntary behavior as Respondent Conditioning.
Second, shaping is the building up of a new response through the reinforcement of successive approximations towards a target behavior. This term is not often used in respondent conditioning. In operant conditioning, shaping refines behavior. For example, teach language by reinforcing any time a noise is uttered, then only those noses that share some similarity with a target word (like 'bah bah' for 'bottle), then refine the next criterion for reinforcement, etc., until the learner says the target word ('bottle').
Shaping can also occur unintentionally, and for undesirable behavior. For example, you have a fight with your significant other, you make up and are emotionally and physically affectionate toward one another. The next time, the fight goes a little longer or gets a little louder, but then you make up. If emotional and physical affection are reinforcers and fighting is a sure-fire way to contact those reinforcers, you could easily see how fighting would increase in frequency or even escalate in magnitude to contact the reinforcer.
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