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Classical vs Operant Conditioning

There are two things of how to learn, the first, classical condition that is “the association of the stimulus with an involuntary response” that concentrated in involuntary behaviors, Ivan Pavlov, experiment with a dog, where he ring a bell before presenting food. When you present food to a dog, it will start to salivate. After Ivan make that experiment, when he ring a bell the dog will start to salivate even when there was no food around. The other way to learn calls, operant condition is the association of a voluntary behavior whit the consequence, Skinner found three types of environmental responses that can follow behavior reinforces and punishers. The reinforces increase the probability of a behavior recurring and punishers decrease the probability of extinguish. To demonstrate positive reinforcement, Skinner put a rat in a box with a lever on accidentally bumping the lever the rat discovered that it would receive food, with the punisher is more “efficiently because that b...