Operant Conditioning

Sense receptors are located in the sense organs like, the eyes, ears and mouth. When a sense receptor is stimulated from touch, smell or sight, it is converted into energy and travels through nerves to the brain. The sensory nerves all use neural impulses to communicate, but the nervous system encodes the messages, so we are able to experience different sensations. Researchers have been studding sensory substitution that would train a blind person to use other sensory impulses to interpret them in the brain as an image and allow them to make out objects. Researchers have also studied how sensitive our senses are by using an absolute threshold and difference threshold. Absolute threshold testes how we can detect the smallest amount of energy, like a flashing light while difference threshold tests how we are able to detect if there is a difference in two objects. We are able to adapt to certain sensory like, wearing clothes, the stimulus signal is
There are many different influences we are subjected to that have a determining factor on how we respond, emotionally or physically. With classic conditioning, we respond to our environment and it stimulates a physical response. Like, when a child hears an ice cream truck, they become very excited. If the child does not get to go to the ice cream truck, the response might become extinct from not being able to get ice cream when they hear the truck. Operant conditioning is different than classic conditioning because with operant, a consequence follows the action put forth. If a child rides their bike down a hill and falls from going to fast, the next time the child will know that they might have the same result on the hill and try to avoid it. Animals are usually use in operant studies, they have found that using a reward when they use a button or lever to get food out, each time it takes them less time to figure out what the results will be by using the button or lever to get