Classic/operant conditioning

Question 1

What is Classic conditioning?

Answer 1

Learning through associating an action with a response

Question 2

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 2

Learning through reinforcement (Positive/negative)

Question 3

Who proposed operant conditioning?

Answer 3

Skinner

Question 4

Who proposed Classic conditioning?

Answer 4

Pavlov

Question 5

What did Skinner do?

Answer 5

Skinner used rats to find whether the could associate their own actions with rewards (reinforcement). he put rats in a box (the skinner box) over time the rat would learn that he would get food if he pushed the lever

Question 6

What did Pavlov do?

Answer 6

Pavlov had dogs with salivating sacks hanging from their mouths, he wanted to find what food dogs salivated over more, but found that the dogs associated him with food and started salivating when they saw him

Question 7

what issues were there with these studies?

Answer 7

They both had ethical issues

Question 8

One problem with the information gathered by these studies

Answer 8

Not generalisable