2. Psychological Factors and Substance Misuse: How do the ideas of Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning explain why someone might misuse drugs? How can these theories be applied to the treatment of substance misuse? (1500 words) Learning (conditioning) is the process that eventually leads to relative permanent change in behavior or training. Some things are innate - we are born with the knowledge but others must be acquired actively. Thus‚ it is ‘an adaptive process in which the tendency
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minutes later she came back to finalize our experience with a big hug. Swimming with the dolphin provided me a close look in many of the learning principles studied in Psychology such as classical and operant conditioning. Animal training Marine mammal trainers were not the first to use operant conditioning techniques. In the early 1930’s‚ a behavioral psychologist named B.F. Skinner defined the manner in which one could use reinforcement to increase the chances that mice would repeatedly perform the
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Skinner’s operant conditioning model of behavior‚ “free will” is not considered. The process that create the form of free will may be biologically costly and are only utilized occasionally‚ so that individuals are likely to remain only incompletely self-disciplined‚ virtuous‚ and rational (Baumeister‚ 2008). In Skinner’s model there is negligence of biological or internal factors that may account for the development of personality and behavior (Ryckman‚ 2013). Skinner’s operant conditioning behavioral
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Comparing Classical and Operant Conditioning Ashley Jaramillo PSY/211 May 7‚ 2013 Monica Guana Comparing Classical and Operant Conditioning I will be comparing classical and operant conditioning by explaining fear of heights. Fear of heights is known as Acrophobia. The phobia part does not occur until a person is in an environment that most people would be relatively fine in‚ such as attending a theme park or being in a building such
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one person may think is the best way to teach may not be the same as another and that is okay. Learning psychology went over a few different techniques of how a person learns new information. One that stuck with me the most is Operant conditioning. Operant conditioning uses positive and negative reinforcement and punishment. From what I have seen and experienced growing up the use of reinforcement is very helpful in teaching someone. The use of the reinforcement will get a student to want to
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with her friends‚ they can talk with each other face to face. Being in a French system‚ my sister stays at school till 4 PM. Which means that she spends most of her day there. But then‚ the recording begins. She reaches home at 4:30 PM.‚ showers‚ eats lunch‚ and then‚ she studies a little bit‚ from 5:00 PM till 7:00 PM (it depends on how much homework she has). Then‚ from 7:00 PM till midnight: chatting time. This means that she spends 5 hours in a row on MSN‚ chatting with her friends‚ which is a
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The values-learned perspective states that police officers learn their ethical or unethical behavior through indoctrination into the law enforcement organization they are a part of. The indoctrination into the subculture molds and shapes the behavior of new officers and as they learn to behave like their colleagues‚ what is expected of them in order to be included becomes their moral standard. One example of this from the audio recording is the officers who worked with Adrian Schoolcraft. These officers
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Classical Conditioning vs. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Jonathan Grunden Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Jonathan Grunden Diane Owsley Psychology 110 September 23‚ 2015 Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning vs. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Throughout psychology there have been many methods to explain the development of how people act and respond to different things. The two methods that I find most interesting are the Learning Principles of Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning and Skinner’s
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How Organism Learn: Classical and Operant Conditioning There are two main explanations of how organisms learn. The first explanation is known as classical conditioning. The second explanation is known as operant conditioning. These two types of learning are exhibited in our everyday lives through our home‚ school‚ and school. Classical conditioning was discovered by Iran Petrovich Pavlov. He was originally a physiologist whose main focus was the digestive system (Gazzaniga 230).
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1. Provide an example of how infants learn through classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) According to experts‚ classical conditioning theory involves learning a new behavior through the process of association where two stimuli are joined together to produce a new learned response in a person or animal. Example is an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) where a nipple is put in a baby’s mouth‚ this actions results to an unlearned reflex action (unconditioned response
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