Write an essay 750 to 1,000 words long based on information found in your textbook Psychology and Your Life by Robert S. Feldman. The great thing about this assignment is there is NO outside research necessary!
Conditioning:
discusses cognitive approaches to learning, which include latent learning and observational learning based on Bandura's experiments. Then, write your essay about one of the following topics:
1. Choose one of these conditioning/learning styles and discuss how it may be applied to child rearing. In essay format, create a plan to help get a young child to clean his/her room.
2. Conditioning still plays a role in punishment, and the text discusses the pros and cons of punishment and why reinforcement "beats" punishment. Explain the theory behind this phenomenon and give an example of it by how you used it when training an animal.