CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Skinner is regarded as the father of Operant Conditioning, but his work was based on Thorndike’s (1898) law of effect. According to this principle, behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, and behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is less likely to be repeated.

Detailed explanation-2: -The basic concept behind operant conditioning is that a stimulus (antecedent) leads to a behavior, which then leads to a consequence. This form of conditioning involves reinforcers, both positive and negative, as well as primary, secondary, and generalized. Primary reinforcers are things like food, shelter, and water.

Detailed explanation-3: -The scientic principles of operant conditioning, developed by behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner in the 1950s, apply to all creatures with a central nervous system.

Detailed explanation-4: -The five principles of operant conditioning are positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, negative punishment, and extinction.

Detailed explanation-5: -The term operant conditioning1 was coined by B. F. Skinner in 1937 in the context of reflex physiology, to differentiate what he was interested in-behavior that affects the environment-from the reflex-related subject matter of the Pavlovians.