CHILD DEVELOPMENTALIST

Child Developmentalist

Child Developmentalist

B. F. Skinner's whole approach is founded on operant conditioning.  The organism is in the method of “operating” on the natural setting, which in commonplace time spans means it is rebounding throughout its world, doing what it does.  During this “operating,” the organism comes across a exceptional kind of stimulus, summoned a strengthening stimulus, or easily a reinforcer.  This exceptional stimulus has the appearance of expanding the operant -- that is, the behavior happening just in the past the reinforcer. 

This is operant conditioning:  “the behavior is pursued by a outcome, and the environment of the outcome modifications the organisms inclination to replicate the behavior in the future.” A behavior pursued by strengthening stimulus outcomes in an expanded prospect of that behavior happening in the future. What if you don't give the rat any more pellets?  Apparently, he's no fool, and later a couple of futile endeavours, he halts his bar-pressing behavior.  This is summoned extinction of the operant behavior.

A behavior no longer pursued by the strengthening stimulus outcomes in a declined prospect of that behavior happening in the future. Now, if you were to turn the pellet appliance back on, in lead that compressing the bar afresh treats the rat with pellets, the behavior of bar-pushing will “pop” right behind into reality, much more rapidly than it took for the rat to discover the behavior the first time.  This is because the come behind of the reinforcer takes location in the context of a reinforcement annals that proceeds all the way behind to the very first time the rat was strengthened for impelling on the bar!

 

Behavior modification

Behavior modification -- regularly mentioned to as b-mod -- is the treatment process supported on Skinner's work.  It is very straight-forward:  Extinguish an undesirable behavior (by eliminating the reinforcer) ...