operant conditioning vs classical conditioning

classical conditioning describes an involuntary, or automatic, response to a stimulus. Classical conditioning is what happens when an animal learns associations among things. Learning associations means learning that things go together. and operant conditioning is a set of principals that describe how an animal learns to survive in its environment through reinforcement (consequences). so they are different.

punishment

four reasons why punishment is bad are:

1. is that by punishment you are making someone go against you.

2.by punishing a boy you are making him do more bad things.

3.punishment is bad because you are making someone do not love you.

4. punishment is bad because is making you be a bad rolemodel.http://http//www.philosophyetc.net/2007/05/is-corporal-punishment-so-bad.html

basics of operant conditioning

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT

in a positive reinforcement a particular behavior is strengthened by the consequence of experiencing a psositive condition.

NEGATIVE REINFORCEMNT

In a negative reinforcement a particular behavior is strengthened by the consequence of stopping or avoiding a negative condition.

POSITIVE PUNISHMENT

in attempt to decrease the likehood of a behavior occuring in the future, an operant response is followed by the presentation of an aversive stimulus. this is well known as a positive punishment.

NEGATIVE PUNISHMENT

in attempt to decrease the likehood of a behavior occuring in the future, an operant responseis followed by the removal of an appetitive stimulus amd this is negative punishment.http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/nru/opcond.html

B.F. Skinner

He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. In a recent survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. He was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent or illogical thoughts, bizarre behavior and speech, and delusions or hallucinations, such as hearing voices. Schizophrenia typically begins in early adulthood, and the treatment for schizophrenia is antipsychotic drugs aren’t the only treatment people with schizophrenia need. Along with medication, psychotherapy and support can help them regain their lives.

John B. Watson

John Broadus Watson he was born on January 9, 1878 an died September 25, 1958 he was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. He also made the controversial "Little Albert" experiment. Later he went on from psychology to become a popular author on child-rearing, and an acclaimed contributor to the advertising industry. He was well recognize around the whole world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Russian,born on September 14, 1849 died on February 27, 1936 was a Russian, and later Soviet, physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov is widely known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russia. He began his higher education as a student at the Ryazan Ecclesiastical Seminary, but thn dropped out and enrolled in the University of Saint Petersburg to study the natural sciences and become a physiologist. He received his doctorate in 1879.
In the 1890s, Pavlov was investigating the gastric function of dogs by externalizing a salivary gland so he could collect, measure, and analyze the spitt and what response it had to food under different conditions. He noticed that the dogs tended to salivate before food was actually delivered to their mouths, and set out to investigate this "psychic secretion", as he called it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov