Operant Conditioning Sharon Thompson Psychology/390 March 26‚ 2012 Joycelynn Flowers-Ashton‚ Ph.D. Operant Conditioning Recognition of time and cost saving suggestions is met with a monetary or other tangible reward. The possibility of employees continuing to develop other cost and time-saving ideas carries high probability. This scenario is an example of operant conditioning‚ which intimates that an organism encountering a reinforcing stimulus (monetary or tangible reward) increases the
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Classical and Operant Conditioning and Phobias Classical and Operant Conditioning‚ the two main methods of learning found in chapter 5of the textbook‚ Psychology are said to contribute to the attaining of phobias. These 2 types of conditioning vary in style and effectiveness‚ however both are responsible for shaping behavior‚ attitude and perception. In this paper we will first discuss how phobias can be developed through classical conditioning‚ second we will discuss how phobias can be developed
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What Is 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 behavior. Operant conditioning was coined by behaviorist B.F. Skinner‚ which is why you may occasionally hear it referred to as Skinnerian conditioning. As a behaviorist‚ Skinner believed that internal thoughts and
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Operant Conditioning is the concept that you can change someone’s behavior by giving them rewards or punishing them. Let’s pretend that you HATE cleaning your room (it’s a big stretch here I am sure). Your parents give you $50 every time you clean your room. Will this change your behavior? Sure‚ you will have a REALLY clean room. But will this change your feelings about cleaning the room? Probably not‚ you may clean it more‚ but you will not enjoy it any more than before you received the money
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Operant conditioning was a term used by Burrhus Frederic Skinner to describe the effects positive and negative consequences of a behavior have on the future occurrence of that behavior (Levine‚ 1999). Skinner believed that all behaviors are the result of reinforcement. Operant conditioning functions under the idea that for each action there is a reaction‚ those reactions are the reinforcements that increase or decrease behavior. There are four types of operant conditioning‚ positive reinforcement
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The article titled‚ “To Condition the Child” by Jacob Lee and Matthew Snodgress discusses the use of operant conditioning in parenting. Lee and Snodgress address both positive and negative reinforcement and punishment when disciplining their children as well as encouraging desirable behavior. First‚ Lee and Snodgress explain that positive punishment‚ such as corporal punishment‚ to stop undesirable behaviors is not effective. In the moment‚ this approach may work‚ but it becomes a danger in the
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Operant Conditioning Vanessa Mejias November 28‚ 2011 Ross Seligman PSY/390 Operant Conditioning In a world that was ruled by psychoanalytic studies‚ and Thorndike’s puzzle box to explain behaviorism‚ B.F. Skinner was a revolutionary in the world of psychology. His studies and reports on operant conditioning has not only survived ridicule and skepticism in his time but has also survived the passage of time and social evolution to incorporate his theories several decades later. By learning
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Operant conditioning forms the premise that behaviours are shaped by their consequences. It is fundamentally learned behaviour‚ formulated by responses to positive or negative motivations; no behaviour is without consequence‚ enjoyable or bad. It is this application of consequences that connects certain responses to particular stimuli (Huitt & Hummel‚ 1997). There are two types of consequences associated with this conditioning: reinforcement‚ which increases the likelihood of repetitive behaviour
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Operant conditioning can be used in the work place to help modify behavior of employees through a negative or a positive experience following their actions (___). There are a number of ways to take care of undesirable behaviors as well as enforce good behavior in the workplace. Management can use reinforcement‚ punishment‚ and extinction to try to mold their employees into performing better and being better workers all around (_____). Studies have shown that people work better and learn better
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Operant Conditioning Paper Christina Ewing PSY/390 January 21‚ 2012 Esther Siler Colbert Operant Conditioning Paper The theory of operant conditioning was thought of by B.F. Skinner. Skinner came up with this theory based on the work of Thorndike (1905). The theory of operant conditioning states that organisms learn to act or behave in a way which obtains or gets a reward yet avoids a punishment. It is an instrumental type of conditioning. Type R conditioning is also
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