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Operant Conditioning
A DifferentKind of Learning
Operant Conditioning
• Involves:
Learning not to do something because it would produce a punishing effect.
Learning to do something because it produces a rewarding effect.
• Learning a Voluntary Response.
Skinner’s Experiment
• A mouse would receive food, a reward, if he pressed a lever.
• The mouse then learned to press the lever because he wanted food.
Skinner Box
Classical Conditioning: Learning Involuntary
ResponsesUnconditionedResponse(UCR)
NeutralStimulus (NS)
UnconditionedStimulus(UCS)
+
ConditionedStimulus (CS)
ConditionedResponse (CR)
How Could We Teach This Girl to Hate Ice Cream?
Through Classical Conditioning
+Ice Cream (NS)
Shock (UCS)
Unhappiness (UCR)
Ice Cream (CS)
Unhappiness (CR)
Through Operant Conditioning
• Give her a reward each time she doesn’t eat ice
cream when others do.
• Punish her for eating ice cream.