1 These are classical and operant conditioning.

2 Operant conditioning involves contiguity, in that the reinforcing event follows closely the production of a response.

3 In operant conditioning, the response should directly follow the stimulus.

4 For operant conditioning to work, at least some stimuli must be reinforcing, and others aversive, without previous training.

5 There is an obvious analogy between operant conditioning and evolution by natural selection.

6 I have described the process of operant conditioning discovered by the behaviourists, but not the philosophy that guided them.

7 These are examples of Operant conditioning and show the power of parents in shaping the personality of the child.

8 Associative learning, which includes both classical and operant conditioning and emphasises mechanical connections or associations between events. 2.

9 Operant conditioning occurs all throughout games.

10 Operant conditioning - The process by which a behavior not normally associated with a given stimulus becomes associated by combination with a positive or negative stimulus.

11 There are two corollaries of operant conditioning Aversion therapy and desensitization.

12 So, to illustrate Skinnerian theory in operant conditioning, I'll give an example of training a pig.

13 Part of the problem with using operant conditioning with babies is it's difficult to get them to behave in any systematic way.

14 And because of operant conditioning, the baby is driven towards the adult.

15 In contrast, operant conditioning teaches us the relationship between environmental stimuli and our own behavior.

16 In technical terms marker training is operant conditioning. Operant conditioning has been around for years. It is how Dolphins are trained at sea world.

17 Operant conditioning forms an association between a behavior and a consequence.

18 The same holds true of any other strategy adopted as a result of operant conditioning.

19 In type two, specific behaviours are linked with specific events as in classical and operant conditioning.

20 Language teachers, impressed by the apparent authority of science, follow suit and try to teach by means of operant conditioning.

21 And more generally, the problem is you can talk about what other people do in terms of reinforcement and punishment and operant conditioning and classical conditioning.

22 The plans incorporated methods used to train marine mammals and included operant conditioning techniques with a positive approach to modifying behavior.

23 You need to train a pig and you need to do so through operant conditioning.

24 Every cat with an owner, for instance, is running a small - scale study in operant conditioning.

25 Every cat with an owner, 14 , is running a small scale study in operant conditioning.

26 The third and final type of learning is known as operant conditioning or instrumental conditioning.

27 To train a rat, the experimenter placed it in an operant conditioning chamber: a small plastic box with a lever at one end.

28 Skinner (1904-1990) built upon Thorndike's ideas to construct a more detailed theory of operant conditioning based on reinforcement, punishment, and extinction.

29 Later on, you need to learn how to develop the operant conditioning method into a reinforcement schedule, so that you'll know when it's appropriate to give out good and bad rewards for things.

30 Now, according to sort of a simple-minded view of operant conditioning in behaviorist psychology, the children you reward should do it more.

31 Method Rats were randomly operant conditioning training group, operation control group and blank control group.