AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Behavior Modification (B-Mod) The systematic application of learning principles to strengthen adaptive behavior and weaken maladaptive behavior. Behavior Therapy A form of therapy that involves the systematic application of the principles of learning.

Detailed explanation-2: -Behaviors can increase by two contingent operations: (1) by producing a stimulus (positive reinforcement), and (2) by removing a stimulus (negative reinforcement).

Detailed explanation-3: -Method of changing behavior through systematic program based on learning principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, or observational learning; also called behavior therapy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Operant conditioning involves learning through the consequences of behavior. Presenting the subject with something that it likes. e.g., Skinner rewarded his rats with food pellets. Reward – in the sense of removing or avoiding some aversive (painful) stimulus.