Experimental design

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna Pennsylvania, a small town located on the Susquehanna River about twenty-three miles away from New York. As a youngster Skinner showed an interest in building different types of gadgets and contraptions. After spending his last six years being a professor of psychology at Harvard, Skinner was diagnosed with leukemia in 1989 and ended up dying on August 18, 1990 at the ripe old age of 86 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In his later…

Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which a response increase in frequency as a result of its being followed by reinforcement. Operant condition have been studied by many behaviorists including Edward Thorndike’s who introduced the low of effect by absorbing the behavior of animals trying to escape from puzzle box. B.F. Skinner who is often regarded to as the father of operant conditioning is another major behaviorist who took Thorndike’s low and add to it. Skinner research on the…

Review and Critique of Positive Behaviour Support Model Since the 1980s researchers have discussed the effectiveness of positive behaviour intervention model for students and schools (Sugai & Simonsen, 2012). Journal articles and other literature discussing Positive Behaviour Intervention Support (PBIS) began to emerge from a framework devised by Sugai and Horner. The University of Oregon began publishing results about the effectiveness of a school-wide behavioural management approach and…

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…

Civility in America- Teaching Appropriate Behavior to Students Introduction Poor behavior of students not only affects their learning, but it affects the learning ability of other students in the classroom. Everyone should learn the appropriate way to behave in different social situations and environments. In order to understand what appropriate behavior is expected, we need to understand what behaviorism is. Behaviorism is a school of psychology that states that in order to understand human…

The behavior that is question and that wants to be modified is the cleaning of a room and how to get them to do it without constantly being asked to do it or own their own accord. The first thing to ponder is organization. Since everything should have its own place and be easy to clean and keep clean with minimal effort, what would be the easiest way to go about it? Another question is how to get the conversation started without seeming as if they are constantly being asked the same question…

Reinforcement Theory Katie LeBlanc Psychology of Personality B. F. Skinner believed in behavioristic theories. When learning about his behaviorist theories, the person gets a better understanding of the role in learning about the development of personality. Skinner’s theories were that conditions and situations affect the learning of a behavior. Skinner ultimately defines personality with terms of behavior, both positive and negative. So one would have to wonder if reinforcements have…

Gender development explains the principle of how male and female identification is interpreted through experiences and interactions with social environment. The pervious statement stands as a major issue within the learning approach, and that the dissimilarities between females and males are required through learning from experiences and not biological development such as genetics. Explanations of the operant conditioning theory can explain gender development, which suggests that reinforcement…

The theory being described is operational which was based on how learning can affect the latency of the rats. This theory was measured through the Morris Water maze and the video monitor. Also, the number of annulus crossing showed the operational definition of persistence. Kim and colleagues selected female and male rats from a brewer. The independent variable was the diet of the rat’s mother’s. The dependent variable was the latency for locating the platform. Group PF and C were the controls…

My sister has trained a few strayed cats to come to the porch. She has given positive reinforcement by giving them food every time they come to the porch. We can say that she has done operant conditioning by training the cats to come on the porch and letting her pet them, where the cat food and treats are the positive reinforcement. By giving a few strayed cats, food as a reward she has caused others stray cats to start coming in hope that they too will receive food. The cats have associated…