Classical Conditioning And Operant Conditioning Paper

Conditioning is used in our everyday life with or without us knowing. There are two different type of conditioning, classical conditioning and operant conditioning. When I was younger I fell behind on my shots, so I had to go to the doctors and get five shots just to be updated on my shot records. When we arrived at the hospital I was still unaware of what was going to happen. We went into the doctor’s office and the nurse came in. After having a conversation with us she began to prepare the needles and clean my skin. I was still unaware of what was going on until she gave me the first. I immediately began to scream not knowing there were four more shots the I had to still get. After fighting my way through the last four shots I automatically disliked the nurse, doctor’s office and, hospital. I was given a lollipop after all my shots but that did not

They took an eighteen-year-old inmate who had vegetative responses. He did not make noises, chew food, or move his limbs. He obtained a serious disorder after he had a seizure after he was born. There has been improvements documented over the past year of movements that progressed into more frequent movement. Here is how: every time the inmate raised his arm in a vertical position, his behavior was reinforced by an injection of sugar-milk into his mouth. The movement of his arm began minimal. But after several sessions, the experimenters had conditioned the inmate to move his right arm vertically at a much higher frequency than the few sessions. This is operant conditioning because the inmate learned to behave in a certain manner due to of some type of change in the environment (which reinforced the desired behavior). And also, because it led to a reward. The difference between my example and the article example is that one wanted to trigger a behavior while the other wanted to stop a behavior. They both used food as a rewarding