The Great Reward

Classical conditioning is the basic learning process that involves repeatedly pairing a neutral stimulus with a response- producing stimulus until the neutral stimulus elicits the same response. It deals with behaviors that are elicited automatically by some stimulus. There are four principles of classical conditioning. The first is the unconditioned stimulus which is the natural stimulus that reflexively produces a response without prior learning. Next is the unconditioned response which is the…

As mentioned above, it takes more money to hire and train new employee than reward the ones we have. We should make sure “to use many different types of rewards to achieve the desired outcomes” (as cited in Buchbinder & Shanks, 2012, p.50). We could create the reward program such as time off for quality work, merchandise, and more opportunities for internal promotion. Another strategy is open a suggestion box to allow the…

What is learning? Learning is the process of gaining new or adapting existing knowledge, skills, and behaviors. Learning is a continuous occurrence throughout our lifetime, as is science. Science is a state of knowing. Science is usually obtained through observation and experimentation. Learning has been a subject of many experiments involving people such as Ivan Pavlov, B.F skinner, john Watson and Edward Thorndike. These men are famous for studying an associative type of learning known as…

For this assignment the class was assigned to interview two people on their personal views on spanking for behavior shaping. One person had to be in the psychology field, the other person could be whoever else. The psychological expert I interviewed was Nicole Olivas, the non-psychological expert that I choose to interview was my fiancé, Casey, mostly because I was very curious about his views on the matter, and if they aligned with my personal views. Nicole mostly talked about the results of…

Video games have come along way since I was in school. Many video games that I remember were highly entertaining and hardly had an educational aspect to it. What I have been noticing is that many video games today are very much taking an educational aspect to it. Companies are deliberately creating video games for students that actually help them reach their full potential in school. I find this very benefiting as many students today and in the future will grow up in an age were technology will…

should be made. The technique I would use would involve a behavioral chart and a weekly reward system. The chart would have the child’s name. The chart would use the colors Green, Yellow and Red. The Green would stand for good behavior, Yellow for needs improvement and Red for Unpleasant. The child would then have to maintain their behavior on green all day in order to receive a reward at the end of the day. The reward would be based off the teacher’s preference. I believe this technique will…

We are constantly learning all around us, it can be from the media or even a family member. We are grasping information voluntarily or even involuntarily. While not all the behaviors we take in are positive, our behaviors can be altered specific way. To increase or decrease a behavior, we may use punishment or reinforcement. To stimulate a response or action, the process would be classical conditioning. Observational learning can also be latent learning, which is the person or animal didn’t…

require minimal facilities or equipment, such as walking, jogging, jumping rope, non-equipment cardio and strength building workouts, or ab exercises. ¬ Along with the introduction of these new behaviors to my current behavior(s), I could start to reward myself when I exercise in order to change my behavior; this action is known as operant conditioning (4). For example, I could use ratio intermittent reinforcement (4), meaning that every week that I exercise three times throughout the week, I…

start positive relationships between employee perceptions of pay for performance and satisfaction with pay, which of course would increase retention. Several studies suggest that individuals are more attracted to organizations with pay systems that rewards the individual employee for his or her own merits rather than group efforts. With the increased attractiveness of the company the quality of potential employees would potentially increase. 4) To realize the effects of their efforts for the use…

This chapter discusses behavioral and social theories of Ivan Pavlov and B. F. Skinner. The theory of classical conditioning by Pavlov explains that we develop a new behavior based on the association we make with the things we interact with, for example; when a child has a painful experience at the dentist he is going to exhibit certain behavior when he comes back for a second visit. In other words, the child responds to a stimulus by exhibiting certain behaviors such as aggressiveness, cry,…