CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In operant behavior, stimuli can be appetitive or aversive. Appetitive stimuli are the ones that you voluntarily approach while aversive stimuli are those you try to avoid or escape. Responses to such stimuli can either be positive or negative reinforcement. In this case positive and negative do not mean good or bad.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reinforcements and reinforcement schedules are crucial to using operant conditioning successfully. Positive and negative punishment decreases unwanted behavior, but the effects are not long lasting and can cause harm. Positive and negative reinforcers increase the desired behavior and are usually the best approach.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stimulus control of operant behavior Such stimuli are called “discriminative stimuli.” A so-called “three-term contingency” is the result. That is, discriminative stimuli set the occasion for responses that produce reward or punishment.

Detailed explanation-4: -In operant conditioning, the antecedent stimulus does not directly elicit the response, as it does in classical conditioning. Instead, the stimulus sets the occasion for a response to be reinforced.