Classical Conditioning

People learn new things and ideas everyday. There are a few learning theories like classical conditioning, positive punishment, negative punishment, positive reinforcement, and negative reinforcement that show that learning something can happen different ways. We learn things whether or not we mean to, and we change according to what we’ve just learned. Classical conditioning is a type of learning that happens when we link two stimuli and expect a certain result. There are four different parts of classical conditioning an unconditioned stimulus, an unconditioned response, a conditioned stimulus, and a conditioned response. For example, whenever I go to a supermarket or any store with shopping carts I turn around constantly to the sound …show more content…
They try to get their child to learn from their actions and change their behavior accordingly. When I was younger and would act out at dinner time my mom would force me to eat extra vegetables that I didn’t like so that I would be good at dinner. This is positive punishment because my mom gave me more vegetables which is something I didn’t want. It was a form of punishment to me because I didn’t like them but then I learned if I was good at dinner then I wouldn’t have to eat a lot of gross vegetables and I would be good. A form of negative punishment is when something is taken away that you want. For example, in high school when I was going through a rebellious phase my mother took my door off it’s hinges. I wanted that door because it was my privacy, but she took it away and I wasn’t to get it back until I behaved myself and was doing what I was supposed to. After some time of trying to show I will no longer be rebellious I got my door back. I learned that the way I was acting would lead to no privacy so I changed my behavior. So the negative punishment worked. She took something away that I wanted and I changed my behavior to get it …show more content…
For example at my job there are mystery shoppers, they go around the store and purchase something and grade our performance. If our store does well and the cashier that was working with this mystery shopper hit all the points possible we are rewarded with a ten dollar store gift card. This is positive reinforcement because if I work hard and give excellent customer service to every customer I will be rewarded by the company. Our behavior of good customer service is stronger because we might get a reward. Negative punishment is when something is taken away but strengthens the behavior like when I play on old video game systems and it stops working or the game won’t load. When that happens I blow on the game and console and put the game back in to play and it works. This caused me to blow on the game and console before playing every time. It’s negative reinforcement because I didn’t like when the game would stop so I would blow on it. This reinforced my behavior of blowing on the game because then it would start to work