Operant conditioning is a way of regulating behavior through rewards or punishment. American Psychologist B.F Skinner developed the concept of operant conditioning. The term operant was chosen to describe behavior of an organism (SITE). According to Skinner operant behavior occurs spontaneously and the consequences that follow that behavior determine if it will be repeated. E.L Thorndike, also a Psychologist was the first to develop the power of consequences with the law of effect. The law of effect states that behavior followed by a pleasant consequence is likely to be repeated where as a behavior followed by an unpleasant consequence will not be repeated. (SITE MAYBE).
Reinforcement and punishment are two key components in operant conditioning. Punishment discourages behavior and Reinforcement encourages behavior. Reinforcement and punishment both can either be negative or positive. A positive reinforcement happens when an incentive is presented after a behavior, encouraging the behavior to be repeated. Negative reinforcement is when an incentive is removed after a behavior, encouraging the behavior to repeated, both positive and negative reinforcement strengthen a behavior to occur again.
Punishment is different from reinforcement but their negative and positives still …show more content…
In this stage children begin to repeat their world with words, images, and drawings. Children in this stage are more skilled and able to think faster than a child in the sensorimotor stage. Children also go through an egocentrism state of mind during this stage which means that the child cannot put themselves in someone else’s shoes but can only see things from their point of view, which makes it hard for them to understand what Piaget calls reversibility and conservation, a belief in permanence of certain attributes of objects despite superficial
Reinforcement and punishment are two key components in operant conditioning. Punishment discourages behavior and Reinforcement encourages behavior. Reinforcement and punishment both can either be negative or positive. A positive reinforcement happens when an incentive is presented after a behavior, encouraging the behavior to be repeated. Negative reinforcement is when an incentive is removed after a behavior, encouraging the behavior to repeated, both positive and negative reinforcement strengthen a behavior to occur again.
Punishment is different from reinforcement but their negative and positives still …show more content…
In this stage children begin to repeat their world with words, images, and drawings. Children in this stage are more skilled and able to think faster than a child in the sensorimotor stage. Children also go through an egocentrism state of mind during this stage which means that the child cannot put themselves in someone else’s shoes but can only see things from their point of view, which makes it hard for them to understand what Piaget calls reversibility and conservation, a belief in permanence of certain attributes of objects despite superficial