Thanks! Ok I get that, but if I'm talking about stimulus generalisation for example, my notes define it as: 'when the learned behaviour is made to another antecedent that is similar to the antecedent that was present when the behaviour was reinforced.'
But if the behaviour was punished shouldn't the definition include something like 'not producing the undesirable behaviour to an antecedent similar to the original antecedent present when behaviour was punished?'
This is the same for spontaneous recovery ('when a conditioned behavioural response is thought to have been extinguished but re-appears after a period of time, even if there is no reinforcement') and the other terms. I guess I am just having some difficulty understanding how to word the definitions and why most of the definitions only include reinforcement, not punishment?
I really wouldn't worry about definitions too much, they wouldn't take marks of you in the exam for writing it only in terms of reinforcement if they did ask for a definition (which in itself is unlikely). In this context you could take it to mean that the behaviour is not completing the activity, and that that behaviour is being reinforced if that helps you feel better about the definition provided but it's really not worth worrying over.
Does anybody have a list of 5-10 standard effects of partial sleep deprivation on a person's affective, behavioural and cognitive functioning?
Thanks
A:
-difficulty judging others emotions
-reduced empathy
-easily irritated and short-tempered
-impaired ability to regulate own emotions
-more likely to have an inappropriate emotional response
B:
-reduced motor co-ordination
-sleep inertia
-fatigue
-impaired behaviour control
-microsleeps
C:
-lapses in selective attention
-irrational thinking
-impaired memory
-impaired learning
-reduced ability to think clearly, especially for simple and/or boring tasks