Operant conditioning
Throughout your life, you have been conditioned to respond to certain stimuli in certain ways. This is known as operant conditioning. Operant conditioning is the type of learning in which the consequences of a behavior influence whether an individual will act in the same way in the future.
Even if there was not a clear behavior plan, the principles of operant conditioning have helped shape your life. In operant conditioning, you learn the relationship between your own behavior and reinforcing or punishing consequences from your environment. You may also learn conditions (antecedents) where consequences are more or less likely to occur.
For this Discussion, you will analyze the fundamental principles of operant conditioning and how it has impacted your life. Additionally, you analyze how behavioral psychological theory (e.g., antecedents, reinforcements, punishment) is applied to condition behavior. As you read this week’s Learning Resources, try to identify times in your life when operant conditioning clearly played a part in your learning.
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
Consider how terminology of operant conditioning relates to specific behaviors.
Think about how your parents reinforced or punished you when you were growing up, and how those acts influenced how you behaved.
Consider how situations in your life today contribute to your behavior. Are you more or less likely to do something when a certain person is around?
Review the interactive media in the Learning Resources, “Operant Conditioning Terms.”
Post a description of a scenario that illustrates the application of operant conditioning in your life and explain how behavioral theory (e.g., antecedents, reinforcements, punishment) was applied to condition behavior in the scenario you posted. Explain how the antecedent condition facilitated or inhibited the target behavior discussed.
Rogue ABA, LLC. (2022). The rogue ABA manual -5th edition task list. Rogue ABA, LLC.
A-1 (p. 20)
B-3 (pp. 44–46)
B-4 (pp. 47–49)
B-6 (pp. 73–74)
Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied behavior analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson.
Chapter 1, “Definition and Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis” (pp. 2–24)
Chapter 2, “Basic Concepts and Principles” (pp. 25–46)
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