Operant Conditioning. Operant conditioning - the learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.
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Example: Taking aspirin for a headache is negatively reinforced – removal of headache!
One way to deal with a child’s temper
tantrum is to ignore it. The lack of
reinforcement for the tantrum behavior
will eventually result in extinction.
To learn anything through observation, the learner must first pay attention to the model.
The learner must also be able to retain the memory of what was done, such as remembering the steps in preparing a dish that was first seen on a cooking show.
The learner must be capable of reproducing, or imitating, the actions of the model.
Finally, the learner must have the desire to perform the action.
(An easy way to remember the four elements of modeling is to remember the letters AMIM, which stands for the first letters of each of the four elements).