Classical and Operant Conditioning Hard Science
Both Classical and Operant Conditioning are processes of learning; Classical conditioning pairs two stimuli, while operant conditioning pairs behavior and response. I encourage you to look at the Russian Physiologist Ivan Pavlov for his detailed process/experiment on classical conditioning. Operant conditioning is broken up into 4 quadrants Our example of Operant conditioning is broken up into 4 quadrants:
Positive reinforcement
Give something the dog deems valuable and you encourage the good behavior
Negative Punishment
Take away something the dog deems valuable and you discourage the bad behavior
Positive Punishment
Give something bad that the dog would deem unpleasant to discourage the bad behavior
Negative Reinforcement
Take away something bad to encourage the good behavior
This is a type of learning in which the strength of a behavior is modified by its response from us “reward or punishment”
-Reinforcement is used to increase the good behavior in a dog
-Punishment is used to decrease the bad behavior in a dog