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    Explain A Token Economy

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    Token economy programmes are a form of behaviour modification based on the principles of operant conditioning. They are used in prisons to encourage the reduction of anti-social behaviour and criminal behaviour; they involve awarding tokens to offenders if a desired behaviour is performed. The tokens may then be exchanged for various rewards. The aim is for the desired behaviour to be repeated. As a treatment it involves setting out a range of desirable behaviours and reinforcing the offender whenever

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    Section One – 1 When psychology first began to become a science in 1860‚ it was more of a field of philosophy than an actual medical study. It dealt with a more abstract concept than other medical fields; the human body is something concrete that you can physically look at and study whereas‚ at the time‚ you could not physically see the mind. In Ancient Greece thinkers such as Aristotle and Plato could only come up with theories as to how the mind works. Plato believed that some knowledge is

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    “training” or operant conditioning and that a child would not really learn unless things were reinforced through this training. It is thought that conditioning happens in education automatically. For example we are taught to sit up straight and be attentive in class‚ this conditioning then becomes a part of the normal routine. Skinner believed that extrinsic rewards for a good deed done would make a child respond better to learning or training when other methods of conditioning did not work‚ and

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    you to sneeze. The feather tickling your nose is the unconditioned stimulus. * Pollen from grass and flowers causes you to sneeze. The pollen from the grass and flowers is the unconditioned stimulus. Unconditioned Response? In classical conditioning‚ the unconditioned response is the unlearned response that occurs naturally in response to the unconditioned stimulus. For example‚ if the smell of food is the unconditioned stimulus‚ the feeling of hunger in response to the smell of food is the

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    This means that if a behaviour is associated with a positive outcome it is likely to be repeated‚ but if is associated with a negative one it is unlikely to be repeated. The three types of learning are classical conditioningoperant conditioning and social learning. Classical conditioning is learning by association. An abnormal behaviour can be acquired by associating an environmental stimulus (e.g. a dog) with a biological response (e.g. pain and fear when bitten) so that every time a person that

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    flexible. This means that each of us can learn to behave in ways that benefit rather than harm ourselves and others. The question is: how does this learning take place? We will focus on four types of learning – habituation‚ classical conditioningoperant conditioning‚ and observational learning. What is common among all these types of learning is that they work under the principle of learning by association. The simplest form of learning is habituation – a tendency to become familiar with a stimulus

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    BEHAVIORISM THEORY

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    was the beginning of behaviorist approaches. Learning occurs as a result of responses to stimuli in the environment that are reinforced by adults and others‚ as well as from feedback from actions on objects. The teacher can help students learn by conditioning them through identifying the desired behaviors in measurable‚ observable terms‚ recording these behaviors and their frequencies‚ identifying appropriate reinforcers for each desired behavior‚ and providing the reinforcer as soon as the student

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    research them he became more interested in their conditional response to their feeding routine. Pavlov’s behavioural approach is relating to classical conditioning. Pavlov began to notice if the bell was rang when the dog’s food was being prepared the dogs when then start to associate the bell with food. Pavlov’s behavioral theory about classical conditioning is relevant to a child’s behaviour and their development as a child will behave in way that is either is positive or negative depending on the response

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    classroom. Operant conditioning is a system of rewards and punishments of actions of children. Although this conditioning applies to all of the children in the classroom‚ I am going to provide a specific example of one student. E.‚ age 1 year 8 months was playing in the classroom when he saw the lunch cart being brought in. He proceeded to stop what he was doing and move toward the sink. These two sentences alone represent classical conditioning‚ but it changes into operant conditioning in the next

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    Behavioural Approach

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    There are four primary historical building blocks of behaviorism. These major foundational contributions are Pavlov’s (1849-1936) classical conditioning experiments‚ Thorndike’s (1874-1949) law of effect‚ Watson’s (1878-1958) experiments with human conditioning‚ and Skinner’s (1904-1990) work and conceptualization of operant conditioning (also see Operant Conditioning). However‚ applied to organization studies‚ the most influential application of behaviorism would be Luthans and Kreitner’s (1985) book

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