What is Operant and Classical Conditioning?
Operant Conidtioning is the science of behavior that explains the functional relationship between environmental events and behavior. Simply put, all living organisms (including humans) learn through trial and error that there are consequences for their actions. These consequences either strengthens or weakens behaviors, and makes them more or less likely to reoccur in the future. Classical Conditioning is also known as Respondant Conditioning or Pavlovian Conditioning, and is part of Operant Conidtioning. Classical Conditioning is related to relfexes and bodily responses to neutral and unconditioned stimuli. Most of the time this takes place with the presence of food. As in Pavlov’s experiment, the bell alone did not mean anything to the dogs–it was an unconditioned stimuli. Paired a number of times with food, the bell took on the properties of a conditioned stimuli, meaning the dogs would start to salivate as an unconditioned response. When the dogs heard the bell, after some repitit
