B.F. Skinners theory of punishment
Date Submitted: 05/22/2004 01:55:20
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 3 pages (693 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 3 pages (693 words)
When you think of punishment and reward you think of a reaction; but man has come up with theories of why we do the things that we can do. Conditioning and learning is defined as change in behavior, which is resulted by different types of practices and experiences. In this report the main topics will be classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitive-social learning, and neuroscience and evolution. Every time we do something good or bad the …
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…grasp. The chimp lost interest in the banana when it was farther but then realized he could use the two sticks to extend his reach, allowing it (the chimp) to obtain the banana. Kohler called this a, learning insight.
To wrap up this report we learned that the different types of conditioning are based on reward and punishment and they all have their own different theories and they are still being tested and experimented today.
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