Learning is a concept in which a person’s way of life is changed by way of experience. Learning is important is our developmental process. This is because we learn about what is right and what is wrong by personal experience or by parental guidance. Everything around us influences our thoughts and actions. Two types of learning are classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Each conditioning method has a distinct way of invoking a change in the behaviors and actions in a subject.
Conditioning is a method of changing a person’s behavior by giving them positive or negative reinforcement for every feat they make until they realize which actions cause rewards and which actions cause negative reactions. Classical conditioning, or Pavlovian …show more content…
Negative punishment occurs when a certain stimulus is completely eliminated when the behavior conditioned to be reduced is elicited in order for it to occur less often. For example, a child is temporarily removed from their favorite class or activity because they were misbehaving (Prince 2013). In the case of the client who wants to stop biting her fingernails, a good way to prevent that action to occur again would be forcing her to place a dollar into a jar for every occurrence of her biting her …show more content…
Classical conditioning is particularly important because it teaches us how to react to diverse things in the world. Being fearful of getting tremendously hurt is a good example of classical conditioning. If we notice how much a bee sting hurts by a friend describing how it felt, we learn to fear bees, therefore leaving them alone when coming across one, which will shelter ourselves. Operant conditioning is just as important because it teaches us that every action performed follows a form of consequence, positive or negative. Negative and positive consequences make us recognize the difference from right or wrong. One example would be drinking alcohol. When we drink too much, we often feel sick. By this experience, we know that being sick is a form of negative punishment and because of that, we learn to not drink
Conditioning is a method of changing a person’s behavior by giving them positive or negative reinforcement for every feat they make until they realize which actions cause rewards and which actions cause negative reactions. Classical conditioning, or Pavlovian …show more content…
Negative punishment occurs when a certain stimulus is completely eliminated when the behavior conditioned to be reduced is elicited in order for it to occur less often. For example, a child is temporarily removed from their favorite class or activity because they were misbehaving (Prince 2013). In the case of the client who wants to stop biting her fingernails, a good way to prevent that action to occur again would be forcing her to place a dollar into a jar for every occurrence of her biting her …show more content…
Classical conditioning is particularly important because it teaches us how to react to diverse things in the world. Being fearful of getting tremendously hurt is a good example of classical conditioning. If we notice how much a bee sting hurts by a friend describing how it felt, we learn to fear bees, therefore leaving them alone when coming across one, which will shelter ourselves. Operant conditioning is just as important because it teaches us that every action performed follows a form of consequence, positive or negative. Negative and positive consequences make us recognize the difference from right or wrong. One example would be drinking alcohol. When we drink too much, we often feel sick. By this experience, we know that being sick is a form of negative punishment and because of that, we learn to not drink