Essays on Operant Conditioning

Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are two major components of behaviorism. Behaviorist do not believe in free will, but rather behaviorist believe that everyone is born with a blank slate, or tabula rasa, and everyone’s behavior is shaped through positive and negative reinforcement, so rather…

Will My Brother Ever Listen? Operant Conditioning is a major way of influencing one’s behavior. It is made of two distinct methods: reinforcement and punishment. Each of these breaks down into two further categories: positive and negative. This gives us a total of four various…

Though classical conditioning and operant conditioning are both techniques involving learning and the acquisition of behaviors, they have contrasting–but sometimes complementary– ways of training. However, with pioneers in each conditioning practice believing in the general principle, “Psychology should be based on experimental investigation of behaviors,”…