Explain The Connection Between Psychology And My Life's Events
Menuka Dhungana
Psychology 1100
Prof: Mr. Schumacher. I am going to write about my child’s behavior and my life’s events.
I will be using the behavioral perspective to explain the events. Behavioral approach focuses on the observable behaviors rather than on mental such as thinking, wishing and hoping which are caused by external factors. It states that in order to understand the causes of behavior, one has to look at the environmental factors that produce them. Behaviorists used classical and operant conditioning to explain how learning occurs when an organism makes a connection between two events. Classical conditioning theory focuses learning a new behavior through the process of association. Thus, classical conditioning explains how neutral …show more content…
He laughed while tickled. Here, tickling is an unconditioned stimulus and laughter is an unconditioned response. Now, when he sees his sister, he laughs. Conditioned stimulus is seeing his sister. An example of positive reinforcement: I told my daughter to sit close to her brother and play with him as I had chores to do. She said “Sorry, Mom. I am drawing”. Then I said, “I will give you an ice-cream if you do it.” She said, “I will do it, mom”. Here, ice-cream is a rewarding stimulus to change her behavior (play with brother). Here is an example of positive punishment: I was born in Bhutan where corporal punishment was allowed at school. I was allowed to speak only in two languages (English or Dzongkha), which were not my primary languages. It was lunch time. I was playing hide and seek with my friends. While playing, in an excitement, I yelled out a Nepali word being it as my primary language. The headmaster heard me. He took me to the office and whipped on my hand several times and told me to clean pigpen. I had to carry many buckets of water and clean pig’s sty with big pigs in it. After that day, I was aware to use my primary language at school. Here, aversive stimulus, whipping and cleaning pig’s sty is added to decrease my behavior of using my mother tongue. Here is an example of negative punishment: I told my daughter
Psychology 1100
Prof: Mr. Schumacher. I am going to write about my child’s behavior and my life’s events.
I will be using the behavioral perspective to explain the events. Behavioral approach focuses on the observable behaviors rather than on mental such as thinking, wishing and hoping which are caused by external factors. It states that in order to understand the causes of behavior, one has to look at the environmental factors that produce them. Behaviorists used classical and operant conditioning to explain how learning occurs when an organism makes a connection between two events. Classical conditioning theory focuses learning a new behavior through the process of association. Thus, classical conditioning explains how neutral …show more content…
He laughed while tickled. Here, tickling is an unconditioned stimulus and laughter is an unconditioned response. Now, when he sees his sister, he laughs. Conditioned stimulus is seeing his sister. An example of positive reinforcement: I told my daughter to sit close to her brother and play with him as I had chores to do. She said “Sorry, Mom. I am drawing”. Then I said, “I will give you an ice-cream if you do it.” She said, “I will do it, mom”. Here, ice-cream is a rewarding stimulus to change her behavior (play with brother). Here is an example of positive punishment: I was born in Bhutan where corporal punishment was allowed at school. I was allowed to speak only in two languages (English or Dzongkha), which were not my primary languages. It was lunch time. I was playing hide and seek with my friends. While playing, in an excitement, I yelled out a Nepali word being it as my primary language. The headmaster heard me. He took me to the office and whipped on my hand several times and told me to clean pigpen. I had to carry many buckets of water and clean pig’s sty with big pigs in it. After that day, I was aware to use my primary language at school. Here, aversive stimulus, whipping and cleaning pig’s sty is added to decrease my behavior of using my mother tongue. Here is an example of negative punishment: I told my daughter