Behaviorism+&+conditioning

** __BEHAVIORISM__: ** ** __CONDITIONING__: **  - Pavlov used conditioning to stimulate the dogs senses and associate the sound of a bell to food. The food was the unconditioned stimuli and the bell conditioned stimuli. When the time would come to feed the dog, Pavlov would ring a bell and then bring out the food. After repeating this several times, the dog started to associate the sound of the bell to the coming of food. The conditioned response was that the dog salivated because it knew the food was coming. The reward for the dog was food, known as the reinforcement. - It can also be argued that conditioning is used in school every day without the students conscience knowledge of this. For example from very early in the morning we are conditoned to wake up and be in school by 8:15. From then on we must show appreciation and understanding of what we learn. This includes taking tests, participating, not questioning the teacher without permission, raising our hand before making any comment or move. The reinforcment that school gives us is good grades. Students aim to get a good grade and we are conditioned to follow all the rules to achieve this.  
 * A school of psychology that confines itself to the study of observable and quantifiable aspects of behavior and excludes subjective phenomena, such as emotions or motives.
 * A process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.