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Question

Describe the major principles in classical and operant conditioning. What are the similarities and differences between the two?

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Answer 1

Classical conditioning is associative learning. A subject associates an event with another experience that has either had a positive or negative experience.

The typical example is Pavlov's (founder of classical conditioning) who noticed that the dog's he was working with would salivate in the presence of someone who fed them.

He then used bells to call the dogs to their food; and after a few repetitions the dogs started to salivate in response to the bell.

In other words, the bell was associated with food and so was predictive of food.

Operant conditioning is the use of consequences to modify the occurrence and form of behavior.

For example, if you do something good, you are rewarded, if you do something bad, you are punished.

Momma Shona is wrong about the differences, because classical conditioning involves in changing the stimuli in which a behaviour occurs through association (and does not involve any reinforcement) and operant conditioning can be used to create new behaviour.

The difference is that operant conditioning deals with the modification of voluntary behavior through the use of consequences, while classical conditioning deals with the conditioning of behavior so that it occurs under new preceding conditions.

Answer 2

Classical Conditioning: Responses to stimuli that don't naturally occur.
Operant Conditioning: Uses consequences to modify behavior.
The differences are that Classical conditioning is used to reinforce a behavior while changing the environment or stimulus and Operant Conditioning is used to modify an existing behavior.

Answer 3

One of my specialties and what I am working on in school, but...b/c I lack the time, he's some websites:

http://www.dogmanners.com/conditioning.html

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/b/brocks/Courses/EDS%20240/EDS%20240%20Handouts/Operant%20Conditioning%20O_H%20&%20H_O.pdf

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Hc5V_Nkpav8J:www.dc-marion.ohio-state.edu/~dchristie/Learning.ppt+classical+vs.+operant+conditioning&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=14&gl=us

Answer 4

You really need to do your own research. Obviously you have access to the internet, so you don't have to spend hours in the library as we older folks did.