Classical And Observational Learning

To help this child there is a lot of work that needs to be put in and needs to be consistent. In this i'm going to explain classical, operant, and observational learning, all different ways to help this child. A huge thing in this is the foster parents have to be there and help, at home at school and with counseling. They need to listen to professionals and understand what this child has been through.

Observant learning is how the kid learns from others around him with their actions, tone of voice, and reactions to things. A great amount of learning happens through this process. Its very important with the socialization process, as children learn how to respond and act to others by seeing how their parents/foster parents and other people interact with each other. The ways the foster parents could help child would be a lot on how they act towards other people and kids. Since the child has frequently showed socially inappropriate displays of emotions his foster parents could show him/her better ways to show your emotions. No yelling or overreacting and staying calm would be a huge thing, if they wouldn't want the child to do it they shouldn't.

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus. Based on the …show more content…
I'm not saying this is a bad way for the kid to learn but you need to be careful with this one. This child obviously needs so authority in his/her life but he/her has also been throu. So there is positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement, they increase the probability of a behavior that they follow, while positive punishment and negative punishment reduce the probability of behaviour that they follow. This is something that you need to try and explain to the kid. The kid isn't use to authority so you will have to ease he/she in and help