Homework Help: psychology/ABA

Posted by carmen on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 8:55pm.

Can someone please tell me if I am defining operant conditioning correctly:
Operant conditioning is a process of increasing or decreasing a specific behavior through reinforcement (positive or negative), punishment or extinction. The person operates based on the environment through learned discriminative stimulus.

psychology/ABA - carmen, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 8:59pm
The orriginal question:
Define operant conditioning and discuss how this method works to increase desired behavior.
psychology/ABA - PsyDAG, Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 11:18am
If behavior is rewarded after it is done, that behavior is likely to be repeated. Punishment leads to a temporary suppression of the behavior, while nonreward (neither reward nor punishment) follows the behavior, it will go to extinction.

This article might help a little more.

http://www.members.cox.net/dagershaw/lol/Tantrums.htm
psychology/ABA - carmen, Monday, April 25, 2011 at 3:51pm
Thank you

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