Operant Conditioning
What is operant conditioning? Operant conditioning was first discovered and experimented by a American Psychologist B.F Skinner who was the one who experimented on operant conditioning.This means that the purpose of Operant conditioning is to find a way that a behavior can be controlled in a positive or negative way. There could even be some methods in where this condition can be controlled and even researchers have been able to prove these movements. Operant condition isn’t something really serious but in some occasions it might be it will all depend on how you plan in using it. In my belief of all the methods that operant conditioning has I believe positive reinforcement is the most effective method in operant conditioning.There …show more content…
What this means is that when a difficult added consequence is added to the decreased behavior it will be able to make the consequence more successful in being what a person wants the consequence to become. An example of a positive punishment is when a child is not on the internet as much which is the decreased behavior and the added consequence would be the mother will cut off the internet and she will have to sit next to him all the time he/she want to use the computer.
A negative punishment is a decrease in behavior that results from a removed consequence (Wood S,et al.,2011). What this means is that when you lose something desirable from a consequence this would be the type of punishment to cause the change in your behavior. An example of a negative punishment would be when a the child stops using the internet to much when the mother doesn 't let him go out with his friends for an entire month. This shows how there are really strict punishments that are really harsh to overcome but, on the other hand it does control the consequence you are trying to get.
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On another hand what I a trying to express is that in operant conditioning there will always be ways in where you might want to make a behavior more accomplished but you must know the steps you need to take to make the behavior successful. There is no reason why people need to get into the positive or negative punishment when your solution is for sure the positive
What is operant conditioning? Operant conditioning was first discovered and experimented by a American Psychologist B.F Skinner who was the one who experimented on operant conditioning.This means that the purpose of Operant conditioning is to find a way that a behavior can be controlled in a positive or negative way. There could even be some methods in where this condition can be controlled and even researchers have been able to prove these movements. Operant condition isn’t something really serious but in some occasions it might be it will all depend on how you plan in using it. In my belief of all the methods that operant conditioning has I believe positive reinforcement is the most effective method in operant conditioning.There …show more content…
What this means is that when a difficult added consequence is added to the decreased behavior it will be able to make the consequence more successful in being what a person wants the consequence to become. An example of a positive punishment is when a child is not on the internet as much which is the decreased behavior and the added consequence would be the mother will cut off the internet and she will have to sit next to him all the time he/she want to use the computer.
A negative punishment is a decrease in behavior that results from a removed consequence (Wood S,et al.,2011). What this means is that when you lose something desirable from a consequence this would be the type of punishment to cause the change in your behavior. An example of a negative punishment would be when a the child stops using the internet to much when the mother doesn 't let him go out with his friends for an entire month. This shows how there are really strict punishments that are really harsh to overcome but, on the other hand it does control the consequence you are trying to get.
Which Method is More …show more content…
On another hand what I a trying to express is that in operant conditioning there will always be ways in where you might want to make a behavior more accomplished but you must know the steps you need to take to make the behavior successful. There is no reason why people need to get into the positive or negative punishment when your solution is for sure the positive