The Great Reward

lose weight and be able to join the football team. I only incorporated eating into my weight loss plan, but ideally weight loss plans should have exercise and diet to obtain maximum results. Weight loss has been known to work better when following a reward based plan versus a punishment based plan. Therefore, operant conditioning is an important learning tool in weight…

Operant and classical conditioning are defined as two types of psychological learning processes (Cherry, About Education). B. F. Skinner a well recognized American psychologist, known for his influence on behaviorism, was the first to present operant conditioning, which emphasizes on the strengthening or diminishing of intentional behavior (Staddon, 2003). Ivan Pavlov a Russian physiologist, known to be responsible for the introduction of classical conditioning, highlights in his theory the…

As a teacher we have to prepare and know how to react when a child has an emotional outburst. Typically students with Autism Spectrum Disorder will have a problem with this. According to Brentani, Helena, Paula, Cristiane Silvestre de, Bordini, Daniela, Rolim, Deborah, Sato, Fabio, Portolese, Joana, Pacifico, Maria Clara, and McCracken (2013), Autism Spectrum Disorder, “…is characterized by a shared spectrum of qualitative impairments in social interaction, associated with varying degrees of…

My focus is on my relationship with my best friend. We have been best friends for a while, coming up on nine years here at the end of the semester. Though we have been best friends for so long, here recently we have had a few instances where we have felt distant and disconnected from one another. We both feel that these feelings are because of our lack of communication. Throughout the entire time of our friendship we have only had a very small amount of issues between us. The most recent event…

In today’s society advertisements are forced down the throats of everyday people. From endless commercials during televisions shows and YouTube videos, to driving down the high way on bill boards, and even are being flown across the sky by airplanes for beach goers and vacationers. Advertisements have become a main influence on society, commonly pairing their products with stimuli that will hopefully elicit positive emotions or other specific feelings to persuade a buyer (Weiten, 2013, p.269).…

Behaviourism has been continuously linked with learning for many years (Tennant, 2003) and is a perspective that focuses on the changes in individuals’ observable behaviours. (Seifert & Sutton, 2009:23) It is the scientific method of study, observing the behaviour of living organisms in relation to any environmental occurrences. (Alberto & Troutman, 2003) Behaviourists often view observable behaviour as a crucial…

Introduction Behavior is generally both physical and psychological response towards stimuli. It encompasses organism’s observable physical movements and internal psychological process, summing up to how an organism responds with the environment. Sniffy experiment seeks to demonstrate how the virtual rat responds to tone and shock variation. It is possible to measure organism behavior using one or more parameters, including duration, intensity, and frequency. While experimentation is a better…

Behaviorism is a theory of animal and human learning that only focuses on objectively observable behaviors and discounts mental activities. Theorists define learning as nothing more than the acquisition of new behavior. Theorists identify conditioning as a universal learning process that can be measured. Cognitivism focuses on the “brain”. How humans process and store information in the process of learning. Is the perspective in change in mental representations and associations brought by…

• Question #1: What is classical conditioning? Please briefly explain the process of how it occurs. What are two examples of a teacher using it in a classroom? (pg. 102) Scientist Pavlov discovered classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is the process that happens when a natural response happens to a conditioned stimuli. Before conditioning, there is an unconditioned stimulus with an unconditioned response and a neutral stimuli with no response. Then, the neutral stimuli is paired with…

Moreover being in a second grade classroom, I feel that one instructional practice that really benefits the students in my classroom is repetition. They often times need to observe or practice something multiple times before they are fully in understanding. For example, every week the students are assigned a series of twelve new vocabulary words that they practice every day for twenty minutes a day through various activities, along with practicing them at school they are encouraged to practice…