A Compare and Contrast Classical Conditioning With Operant Conditioning

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 A COMPARE AND CONTRAST CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

WITH OPERANT CONDITIONING.

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING SIMILARITIES


OPERANT CONDITIONING
 Based on involuntary reflexive  Forms of associative  Involves voluntary behavioral
behavior. learning. outcomes.
 Are influenced by biology  Reinforcement or punishment is
 A signal is given before the reflect. and cognitive processes.
given after the behavior.
 Involved acquisition,  Discover by Skinner.
 Discovered by Pavlov. extinction, spontaneous,
recovery, generalization  Behavior comes first.
and discrimination.
 Stimulus comes first.

 B. ILLUSTRATE AND WRITE YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT


THE PRIMARY LAWS
PRIMARY LAW

Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949) was a professor of American Psychology, a disciple of William James who
developed a series of laws about trial and error learning. Thorndike's theories are considered as the precursors of
American behaviorism that would find its maximum exponent in the figure of Skinner, father of operant
conditioning.

Edward Thorndike developed the first three laws of learning: readiness, exercise, and effect. He set also the
law of effect which means that any behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, and
any behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is likely to be avoided.

Thorndike’s theory consists of three primary laws: (1) law of effect – responses to a situation which are
followed by a rewarding state of affairs will be strengthened and become habitual responses to that situation, (2)
law of readiness – a series of responses can be chained together to satisfy some goal which will result in annoyance
if blocked, and (3) law of exercise – connections become strengthened with practice and weakened when practice is
discontinued. A corollary of the law of effect was that responses that reduce the likelihood of achieving a rewarding
state (i.e., punishments, failures) will decrease in strength.
 C. DIFFERENTIATE TOLMAN'S PURPOSIVE BEHAVIORISM WITH
BANDURA'S SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

NEO
BEHAVIORISM

Tolman’s
Purposive Albert
Behavioris Banduras
m Learning

-Purposive -Tolman saw -Social Learning -Bandura


behaviorism has behavior as Theory focuses asserts that
also been holistic, on the learning most human
referred to purposive, and that occurs behavior is
assign learning cognitive. within a social learned through
theory and is context. observation,
often seen as the imitation, and
link between
behaviorism and

NOTE: Learning is always purposive and goal directed, according to "Tolman


and Bandura", cognitive process promotes learning to pupils, teaching alternative
new concepts learner may have their interest to fill-in the knowledge they want.

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