The 4schools Of Thought (in Principls And Theories Of Learning And Performance)

Question 1

What is operant conditioning

Answer 1

A behaviourist and a form of associationist learning

Question 2

Who was the main physiologist behind operant conditioning

Answer 2

BF skinner

Question 3

What did BF skinner believe

Answer 3

Learning through the “consequences” of our actions, the consequences being in the coaching environment

Question 4

What experiment did BF skinner do

Answer 4

The rat in a box experiment

Question 5

Explain the experiment of the rat in the box experiment by BF skinner

Answer 5

The rat presses the leaver and a food pellet falls out, the food delivery was linked (associated) to pressing the lever
Another rat would get eletric current through the bottom of the box but when it changed the leaver the current would stop. This would also form a association with the lever and current

Question 6

What is an SR bond

Answer 6

Stimulus response
A set stimilus wil illicit a set repsonse.The stimulus can be grooved and you can manipulate the environment to learn the response

Question 7

What does positive reinforcement do to the SR bond

Answer 7

Strengthn it

Question 8

What does negative reinforcement do to the SR bond

Answer 8

Weaken the bond