Classical conditioning

Author of the utopian novel, Walden Two (1948), Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20th, of 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Skinner can also be described as the creator of the behaviorist theory of psychology. B.F. was born to a father occupied as a lawyer and a mother who did not work but stayed at home to tend to Skinner’s needs. Skinner had an early interest in building and inventing gadgets which later on in his life plays a minor role in his success. On the path of education,…

Shalecia Reynolds Prof. Stallings October 18, 2015 PSYC 2301.WS2 Asgn. – Reinforcement Positive Reinforcement Positive reinforcement is the presentation of something that causes and encourages a given response, so that the response will happen more often. Example: Professor Smith realized that the online class’ exam average increased after she made videos of her in class lecture exam reviews available. She continued to post lecture videos for each exam review. Negative…

Jaida Marks Mrs. Pangaio Honors Anatomy and Physiology 3 September 2015 Shivering when you get cold or sweating when you are hot, are both very common examples of your body trying to maintain homeostasis. Homeostasis is the ability of your body to maintain stable internal conditions when faced with environmental changes. Sometimes there can be a stimulus in the environment that will cause changes to an organism's stable internal conditions. This results in the organism responding using…

B.F. Skinner described Operant Conditioning as changes in behavior to be determined by an individual's response to events (stimuli) in a given environment. The actions of an individual is called a response, and when a desired stimulus response is reinforced the individual may respond in a certain way. In Operant Conditioning there are two different types of reinforcement, positive and negative. Positive Reinforcement (reward) involves presenting a motivating object/item to a person after the…

Within the discipline of education there are many specific areas one may choose to research. These topics can range from teaching styles to the psychological effects of mainstreaming special needs children into the classroom. For an undergraduate in the field of education one must figure out what they would like to know more about and how to properly research their chosen topic. After choosing a topic one must learn to sift through all the information already out there on their topic, one useful…

In order to get rid of the cursing behavior from her husband Bianca used extinction principal technique for behavior modification process. First she identifies the behavior that needs to be corrected. Then she did an ABC analysis of her husband’s behavior. And find out that which events or situation cause her husband to start cursing a lot. She finds out that because his husband was in the Army and people curse a lot in that lifestyle. She understands how difficult it gets while our citizen…

Operant learning, also known as instrumental, consequence, or response learning, is experiences where the behavior is made stronger or weaker by its consequence (Chance, 2014). This term coined by B.F. Skinner, a psychologist, after studying the behavior of a rat, within a box that contained food and a lever, was built on the foundation given by E.L. Thorndike’s Law of Effect (Chance, 2014). Skinner recognized two kinds of reinforcing events; one in which a positive stimulus is presented and the…

Throughout the years, Behaviorism has been helping a large amount of people behave as the society standards expect them too, sometimes without them even knowing. Whether it 's a positive reinforcement of "gold stars" in preschool, or the negative reinforcement of speeding tickets, we are all a part of a behavior modification plan based off behaviorism at some point in our lives. Behaviorism can be used in many situations, including breaking bad habits. Everyone has a certain bad habit they are…

There are always two sides to every story and this is still very much the case in the debate on spanking children. Spanking is one of the most controversial and most debated topics of this century. Moreover, there seems to never be a middle road and debaters always feel very strongly one way or another. This topic in general quite often falls prey to the excluded extreme fallacy that one is either fully for spanking or fully against it; either way to the fullest extent. Some believe spanking is…

a computer system and it crashes, something so basic then would become a crisis. Strategy 5 Social learning is very important to a workforce. Imitation and modeling are major factors and is a combination of information processing and operant conditioning. As a supervisor or trainer, my audience (workers) must see an example of what right look like. I must set the example in my actions and behavior in order for my subordinates to model the behavior. Strategy…