Skinners Operant Conditioning
Skinners Operant Conditioning
Skinners Operant Conditioning
Conditioning
Prepared by :
Danica Jean R. Calzada
Shela Nie I. Sarocam
Nicole Regine M. Lucena
Alexandra Maxine C. Bulac
The Origin
• John B. Watson, an American psychologist who established the
psychological school of behaviorism, retired from the world of
psychology. This gave a big impact on the psychologists and behaviorists
in their time. They wanted to propose new forms of learning other than
classical conditioning. The most important among all the emerging
theories was the Operant Conditioning founded by Burrhus Frederic
Skinner, more commonly known as B.F. Skinner.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
• Operant conditioning has been used as a classroom management strategy for many years.
Students may be given tokens or stickers inside the classroom as a reward for their good
behavior. Meaning their good behaviors were reinforced by the rewards they receive.
Operant conditioning techniques also have been used extensively with children in special
populations. In research with autistic children, their use has been associated with
improvement in IQ, language and sociability, as well as with the reduction of behavioral
problems in children with multiple disabilities.
Conclusion
• In conclusion, Skinner wanted to make the process of observing and studying the
behaviors of a human being simpler yet more detailed. By observing the responses that
you can actually see and comprehend rather than studying the abstract thoughts and ideas,
you will be able to fully understand a human’s behavior given the situations and
conditions by the external interference. With this, we can conclude that our environment
or the surrounding people in a certain radius can really affect our personality and
behavioral development.