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Classical Conditioning Report

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The report is based on whether an understanding of classical and operant conditioning is valuable for a teacher and a trainer. Before that, it’s also very important to know what the conditioning theories are and who invented the theories, and how the theories are followed by conditioning. Here I am going to give explanation about the theories and how it can be used in our life and in the classroom. The report also includes the benefits and critics of using conditioning theories.so lets know what the conditioning theories are and how it works in our life and how it is capable for the classroom. Firstly, the classical condition theory was discovered by Ivan Pavlov (1927), He was famous Russian behavioral physiologist who found the theory of …show more content…

The same theory can be applied in the classroom. Suppose in a noisy classroom the teacher instruct the student to quit down (before conditioning). The student would not get quiet. The teacher clapped three times but would not get quite again the teacher clapped and instructed the students to quiet down then a student was quite. Then whenever the teacher enters the classroom and claps three time the students quite down. Now the student behavior has been conditioned. (Classical Conditioning in the Classroom) (Classical …show more content…

Skinner theory was depending on the work of Thorndike’s law of effect. Operant conditioning refers to the change in behavior as a result of experience s that occurs after a response.it involves changing voluntary behaviors’ behavior response is followed by either reinforcement or punishment. The skinner studied operant condition by conducting experiment. He used a mouse in his experiment he put the mouse in the boxes. At first the mouse had wondered around in search for food and accidentally pressed down on the liver whistle. It explored the food and the mouse had learned to obtain food whenever it gets hungry because of the conditioning. According to the skinner test the food is called a reinforce and the process of giving food is called reinforcement. A reinforce is anything likely to increase a behavior. There are two types of reinforcement, positive and negative reinforcement. A positive reinforcement is something pleasant to increase a behavior while a negative reinforcement is the removal of something unpleasant to increase a behavior. Being a teacher as my point of view, the teacher would ask the student to finish the work on time. Then the teacher may give beautiful stars to the students who finish up the work on time. After that, whenever the teacher is given to the work. They put their full effort to finish up the work within no time and get the star.(positive reinforcement). If a response is followed by

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Operant conditioning is a type of learning process where the strength of a client’s behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment. Dr. Foxx’s work with Harry is an example of operant conditioning because of the techniques he used with different levels of consequences, for example time out and physical reinforcements. With that being said Dr. Foxx used Harrys restraints as both positive and negative reinforcements. In addition, some of the examples Dr. Foxx used to work with Harrys problem behavior

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In chapter 7, I found the concept of punishment to be most intriguing. Punishment is a part of operant conditioning which was theorized by B.F. Skinner. Punishment is often confused with negative reinforcement. However, the main difference between the two is: while the goal of reinforcement is to increase the likelihood of a behavior, the primary goal of punishment is to reduce the chances of the behavior it follows. In 1938, Skinner concluded that punishment produces only temporary suppression of behavior but later research found that effects may be permanent.

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Mr. Byrne is having trouble getting his students to listen. He is trying scolding as a punishment, but that is not working. By the end of this essay, Mr. Byrne will learn how use operant conditioning to get his seventh grade students to listen. Mr. Byrne can 't understand why scolding his seventh-grade students for disruptive classroom behaviors makes them unrulier. Mr. Byrne 's can use operant conditioning techniques to reduce disruptive behaviors and increase cooperative behaviors.

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1.Classical conditioning is a learning process first discovered by the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov in the early 1900s. The theory of Classical Conditioning deals with the learning process leading us to gain a new behavior via the process of association. Internal mental thoughts and brain mechanisms play a huge role in associative learning. Classical Conditioning works by pairing involuntary response with stimulus. After which, unconditioned response becomes conditioned response.

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Skinners experiment was based on operant conditioning, using the concept of discrimination learning, he carried out experiments on animals with the idea that their behaviour is predetermined by their environment and using a well controlled environment would allow him to in turn control their behaviours using a range of triggers. Using reinforcement and expectancy, the animal associates acting out certain behaviours with rewards. (Toates, F., 2010, pp. 165-167) After performing a number of experiments on rats using mazes, he subsequently designed the Skinner box.

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Nevertheless, Skinner points out that children learn nothing from the punishment. Instead, they may start to work out how to avoid it (Nolan & Raban, 2015). Another concept is classical conditioning (classical behaviorism) that emphasizes on the relation between stimuli and response. This concept embodies in a famous experiment, in which the food is presented to the dog when the bell rings, and the bell becomes a conditioned stimulus for the dog (Nolan & Raban, 2015). Likewise, if children receive toys in the condition that they behave well, then they will probably repeat this behavior to get the toys.

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Introduction Learning enables you as an individual, to gain more knowledge about something which you have never learned about. Learning also has to do with past experiences which are influenced by behavioural changes (Weiten, 2016). There are different types of ways to learn; through, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning which will be discussed and analysed in the essay.   Behaviourism Behaviourism is considered one of the main subjects in psychology and the two main people who founded behaviourism were, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, also known as B.F Skinner and Ivan Pavlov who were famous for the work they did on classical and operant conditioning (Moderato & Presti, 2006). According to Moderato and Presti

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My first topic will be over classical conditioning and learning by association. Classical conditioning is defined as learning that occurs when a stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. One example I can think of in my life is marching band, and the various stimuli we are exposed to. Before we start the, season, we have to go through band camp, where we begin the acquisition, which is the phase of learning where a response is established. An example of this will be when we are called to attention.

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Classical conditioning is a type of learning where a neutral stimulus attains the ability to make a response produced originally by a different stimulus, and emotions are able to be classically conditioned. This is called a conditioned emotional response. It is where an emotion, either positive or negative, is felt when experiencing a stimulus that was accompanied by either a pleasant or painful event. An example of a classically conditioned emotion would be connecting the smell of a certain aftershave with pain which would then cause anxiety. For example, going to the dentist and smelling a certain aftershave while experiencing pain during a procedure will connect the two, and if the procedure is done multiple times, the emotion that is being

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Conclusion Operant conditioning is a theory which was developed by an American psychologist named B.F. Skinner. This theory has been known as a learning process. It applies to four different methods, that consists of positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment and negative punishment. In this case positive is seen as something being added and negative as something being taken away.

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For this paper, I chose to write about the Little Albert experiment The overall importance of this study was to discover if a human could be conditioned to develop a bias, fear, or generalized fear of an animal, object, or person based the stimuli placed around the involved person, animal or object. Watson & Rayner (1920) suggested that “in infancy the original emotional reaction patterns are few, consisting so far as observed of fear, rage and love, then there must be some simple method by means of which the range of stimuli which can call out these emotions and their compounds is greatly increased.” This means that before any conditioning occurs, the subject should have a pure response, but after minor and simple experimentation and conditioning,

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Link to reality: Both Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning and Pavlov’s theory of classical conditioning can be used every day in an ECCE setting. Today many school systems and childhood authorities follow Skinner’s and Pavlov’s theory by using the approach of positive reinforcement. This encourages good behaviour in the child making the behaviour more likely to be repeated again as they are rewarded and praised for their efforts in reading, writing and general learning. It is important that children’s efforts in a learning setting are rewarded as this will encourage the child to perform to the best of their ability.

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Eventually, the previously neutral stimulus comes to evoke the response without the presence of the naturally occurring stimulus. The two elements are then known as the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response. 2. Operant conditioning Operant conditioning (sometimes referred to as instrumental conditioning) is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that

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INTRODUCTION Have you ever thought on how people explain about behaviour? How do we know when learning process has occurred? Learning is permanent change that happened in the way of your behaviour acts, arises from experience one’s had gone through. This kind of learning and experience are beneficial for us to adapt with new environment or surrounding (Surbhi, 2018). The most simple form of learning is conditioning which is divided into two categories which are operant conditioning and classical conditioning.

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1. B.F. Skinner: Behaviour modification Positive and negative reinforcements or rewards and punishments are used to modify or shape learner’s behaviour. B. F. Skinner’s entire system is based on operant conditioning. The organism is in the process of "operating" on the environment, which in ordinary terms means it is bouncing around its world, doing what it does. During this "operating," the organism encounters a special kind of stimulus, called a reinforcing stimulus, or simply a reinforcer.

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