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Social Sciences - Psychology / Falconry / operant conditioning / behaviorism | | Spanish term or phrase: la omisión | To my mind, the example in parentheses suggests that the meaning here is "extinction," but a colleague suggests that I may be mistaken. Other ideas here.
Así mismo están claramente ejercitadas tres variedades del condicionamiento instrumental, como son la recompensa (principalmente), el castigo negativo (inhibición del reforzador apetitivo) y la omisión (cuando por ejemplo el ave captura una presa que no debiera y no se le ceba en ella). |
|   Robert ForstagKudoZ activityQuestions: 856 (none open) ( 18 closed without grading) Answers: 4588
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| | omission | Explanation:
Know nothing of falconry, but I imagine the trainer undertakes this conditioning, so not giving the falcon whatever it is given when it catches the right prey is a kind of negative reinforcement.
Best of luck and have a good weekend! Christine Walsh
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Note added at 14 hrs (2009-01-31 17:36:39 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Robert. I realized when I glanced through Parrot's link this morning; I was looking for a kind of opposition to 'positive reinforcement' and chose the wrong term.I seem to remember it was in the wee hours here! If I was of any help I'm very glad, but don't quite see in what way. |
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Christine Walsh
Local time: 13:13
| Grading comment Thank you, Christine. Only one correction. The conditioning process at work here would not be called "negative reinforcement" (remember, negative reinforcement *increases* the probability of a response occurring by *removing* a stimulus; discontinuing an obnoxious noise when a rat presses a lever would be a good example of "negative reinforcement.") Instead, the conditioning process at work in the present sample would be called "negative punishment" (i.e., the *decreasing* of a probability of a response occurring through *removal* of a stimulus--here, the captured animal). To complicate matters somewhat further, there is probably also some positive punishment (i.e., decreasing probability of a response by introducing a stimulus (here, likely, some sort of aversive action on the part of the falconer toward the bird to assure it does not consume the prey).
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Explanation:
Know nothing of falconry, but I imagine the trainer undertakes this conditioning, so not giving the falcon whatever it is given when it catches the right prey is a kind of negative reinforcement.
Best of luck and have a good weekend! Christine Walsh
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Note added at 14 hrs (2009-01-31 17:36:39 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Robert. I realized when I glanced through Parrot's link this morning; I was looking for a kind of opposition to 'positive reinforcement' and chose the wrong term.I seem to remember it was in the wee hours here! If I was of any help I'm very glad, but don't quite see in what way.
| Christine Walsh
Local time: 13:13
Native speaker of:  English, Spanish
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| | Grading comment | Thank you, Christine. Only one correction. The conditioning process at work here would not be called "negative reinforcement" (remember, negative reinforcement *increases* the probability of a response occurring by *removing* a stimulus; discontinuing an obnoxious noise when a rat presses a lever would be a good example of "negative reinforcement.") Instead, the conditioning process at work in the present sample would be called "negative punishment" (i.e., the *decreasing* of a probability of a response occurring through *removal* of a stimulus--here, the captured animal). To complicate matters somewhat further, there is probably also some positive punishment (i.e., decreasing probability of a response by introducing a stimulus (here, likely, some sort of aversive action on the part of the falconer toward the bird to assure it does not consume the prey). |
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