Conditioning in My Life

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Conditioning in My life Author Note This paper is being written on April 26th, 2012 by Scott Palmer for Staci L. Barnes’ General Psychology course at Rasmussen College Conditioning in My life Classical Conditioning: We are born in this emotion. We die in this emotion. It starts wars or ends them. It encourages us or discourages us. It can make us embrace God or deny him. It is a hesitation we feel before leaving the bathroom and flicking a light switch off with wet hands. It is anxiety when we hear an abrupt “thud” from the bathroom, knowing someone is in the shower. It’s a sense of vulnerability when we go to sleep, and our bare feet are uncovered by the blanket. It’s awkwardness, when endeavoring to make new friends. It can prolong the ending of a relationship or never allow one. What I’m talking about, is the emotion, which I believe, takes precedence over all others. This emotion is fear. Fear is the strongest human emotion, inescapable from birth to death, shaping the most mundane aspects of our existence. Operant Conditioning: As a child I grew up with one brother and two sisters, which all are older than me. We all had chores for each day and chores for each weekend. At the end of the week on Sunday we would be given $10 for allowance for completing our chores. If we failed to do any of our chores for the week we would be put on restriction, a day of restriction for each chore that was not done. This experience taught me, and is still used today, responsibility. I believe that if my parents did not teach me in this way I would not understand it in the meaning of having a job! At my job, at the end of the week I get a pay check and if I miss any days I do not get paid for them so it is my duty to show up for work or suffer the consciences. Behavior Modification: My wife and I have two children, a daughter (17) and a son (14), the

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