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Classical vs. Operant Conditioning. Do Now. Take an index card on your way in and answer the following question: Question: What are incentives? Provide two examples from Freakonomics. Video time!. How is what I did during the do now different from what Jim does to Dwight?
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Do Now • Take an index card on your way in and answer the following question: • Question: What are incentives? Provide two examples from Freakonomics.
Video time! • How is what I did during the do now different from what Jim does to Dwight? • Mr. Huth is awesome. FACT!
Classical conditioning • First described by Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist • Involves placing a neutral signal before a reflex • Focuses on involuntary, automatic behaviors
Operant Conditioning • First described by B. F. Skinner, an American psychologist • Involves applying reinforcement or punishment AFTER a behavior • Focuses on strengthening or weakening voluntary behaviors
In Freakonomics… • What type of conditioning was utilized throughout chapter 1 of Freakonomics? • How do the authors describe this?
CPS vs. BxSci Students • We will now complete a comparison activity that asks you to develop a study to discover cheaters at BxSci