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1 Operant Conditioning

2 Central focus and Objectives
Central Focus: To learn the vocabulary terms of operant conditioning and utilize those operant conditioning terminology in their own lives through conflict cycles and storyboard. Objectives Utilize pervious terminology of classical conditioning and implement them to operant conditioning Create a story board of their life through conditioning Identify the importance of conditioning by relating it to their own lives

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4 Skinner Who is he: Huge philosopher and psychologist
Has various studies and philosophy’s people look at His experiment “Skinner’s Box” is the base of knowledge for operant conditioning just like Pavlov’s Dog and classical conditioning His philosophy started behaviorism and wrote a novel Walden Two about a utopian society

5 Skinner’s Box Involves rats and shaping.
Rats were to press a lever through the reward of food If they did not press the lever they would be shocked until they pressed the lever Overtime they figured out to press the lever constantly for safety and to receive food

6 Reinforcers of Skinner’s Box
Food was used as a PRIMARY REINFORCER (POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT) While if the rat did not do it their was a NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT of an electric shock. Only a push of the lever would stop the shock Great example of aversive stimulus Rats were shaped into pressing the lever

7 Punishments Negative Reinforcement = unpleasant event to occur when subject is doing something wrong, will be taken away when done right. Grounded Types Escape Learning: Need to escape from the negative stimulus Shuttle Box Avoidance Learning: avoids the negative event to occur by never doing the bad behavior. Skinners box

8 Aversive Control

9 Disadvantages of Punishment?
What are some potential disadvantages of punishment? Is punishment the most effective way to see results in conditioning? How did you come to that conclusion?


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