CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Classical conditioning focuses on stimuli and responses, reflective responses, and what happens before a response, while operant conditioning focuses on behaviors and consequences, voluntary behaviors and what happens after responses have occurred.

Detailed explanation-2: -Operant conditioning was first described by the American psychologist B.F. Skinner. The primary focus of this type of conditioning process is to either strengthen voluntary behaviors you’d like the dog to continue or eliminate voluntary behaviors you’d like your dog to stop.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most important thing to remember is that classical conditioning involves automatic or reflexive responses, and not voluntary behavior (that’s operant conditioning, and that is a different post).

Detailed explanation-4: -What is this? Classical conditioning associates involuntary behavior with a stimulus while operant conditioning associates voluntary action with a consequence.

Detailed explanation-5: -In classical conditioning, the stimulus comes before the behavior to develop a relationship between the two. In operant conditioning, the behavior comes first and the negative or positive reinforcement comes after.