(8+16) Psychological explanations of obesity include the psychodynamic and the behaviourist approach. Behaviourism suggests three means by which obesity may occur; classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning and social learning theory. There is a great deal of evidence for the behavioural explanation. Classical conditioning is where eating becomes associated with other behaviours that are often routine‚ leading to eating when not hungry for example snacking whilst watching TV. Evidence for this
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quote relates to the ways of psychology that Skinner used to help shape it and life for the future. Famous for operant conditioning and negative reinforcement Skinner used these tools of thought to find the response and behavior of who or what he was testing. This was a form of behaviorism‚ which is the theory of learning based on an idea that behaviors are acquired through a way of conditioning. This is which I believe he is one of the most important psychologist of this time. By being rewarded for doing
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References: Myers‚ D. (2011). Exploring psychology . (8 ed.). New York‚ NY: Worth Publishers. Operant conditioning vs. classical conditioning . (2000). Retrieved from http://www.dogmanners.com/conditioning.html
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There are many different theories on how people learn and over the years learning theories have dramatically changed. They have been superseded by newer theories based on psychological‚ social‚ cultural development factors‚ (Fritscher‚ 2011).In this paper I will be concentrating on five theories‚ three psychological and two social‚ they are; Behaviourism‚ Humanism‚ Constructivism‚ Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice‚ and Vygotsky’s learning theory. I have chosen these theories because I believe
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the operant conditioning concept. Negative reinforcement was also noted in his research including punishment. In the operant conditioning model‚ Skinner felt that people learn their behaviors. These behaviors are learned based on whether they experienced positive or negative results. The way that Skinner determined that this was true was by observing the behaviors of rats and pigeons. He would use Skinner boxes that would isolate these specimens. An example of how he came up with the operant conditioning
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one is better. According to Skinner‚ one way of reinforcing behavior is through operant conditioning. In this type of reinforcement‚ a positive or negative stimulus is introduced in the environment to a given response to reinforce the action. For example‚ if a child cleans his room‚ he is given his allowance; otherwise the parents confiscate his allowance. There are four factors that will affect operant conditioning – satiation‚ immediacy‚ consistency and size. (Coon‚ Talbot‚ & Vanchella‚ 2010‚ pp
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What is learning? According to Hergenhahn and Olson (2005)‚ learning is defined as " a relatively permanent change in behavior or behavioral potentiality that comes from experience and cannot be attributed to temporary body states such as those induced by illness‚ fatigue‚ or drugs" (p. 8). The study of learning is important because it gives us a greater comprehension of how behavior is learned. By understanding the learning process we can manipulate the environment to encourage normal behavior that
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Theorist of development: A. Cognitive (Piaget) Cognitive theories of development look at how thought processes and mental operations influence growth and change. Cognitive theory is looking at the development of a person ’s thought processes. It also looks at how these thought processes influence how we understand and interact with the world. One theorist and cognitive thinker was Jean Piaget‚ who gave an idea about how we think about child development. This is that children think differently than
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find ourselves in a similar position again Psychologists who have studied learning have developed advanced therories on the process of learning. Here we will discuss the two major approaches to learning; instrumental and classical conditioning. Classical Conditioning It occurs when a stimulus that elicits a response is paired with another stimulus that initially does not elicit a response on its own. A Russian physiologist ‚ Pavlov introduced classically conditioned learning by pairing a neutral
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B.F. SKINNER Operant condition is the condition of responses Parents have long known that children respond to a system of rewards and punishments. While to say that this is a simplification of the theories of famed American behaviourist B.F. Skinner would be an understatement‚ it is accurately descriptive of the most basic aspect of his beliefs. Operant behaviour and operant conditioning‚ Skinner’s most widely acclaimed work‚ is based on a system of both positive and negative reinforcement
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