Conditioning
Discusses classical conditioning and the experiments of Ivan Pavlov, operant conditioning, and B. F. Skinner's contributions to the field in particular with his discussion on rewards and punishment. Also 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.