Animal Training Using Operant Conditioning and Positive

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Operant conditioning- is based on animal training. I am learning in which animals is from the behavior or the way it acts witch also depends on its environment. In this behavior the animal would either increase or decrease by the following reinforcement that follows. Animal trainers apply Operant conditioning, if the animal performs a behavior that they want done again or the trainer will also give them a treat for doing this behavior. Humans learn in the same way for example if your teenager is supposed to come home from high school every day and/or chores around the house making the bed, washing close, doing dishes, vacuuming, if you do not reward her for this positive reinforcement will not follow and will probably stop altogether doing the chores around the house when she comes home from school. Positive reinforcement- when an animal does a behavior produces a positive stimulus if you reinforce the positive stimulus and you give the animal a treat then later on the animal is likely to always do the same favorable behavior over and over. The positive stimulus will know that you gave it positive reinforcement and will probably do the same behavior over when you like the animal to do it. Negative reinforcement this involves taking away the unfavorable stimulus, or in this case a negative reinforcement will increase what you would like the child not to do again and again. This is not like a punishment because punishments follow consequences good ones and bad ones. Positive reinforcement for a behavior that you want to happen again whenever you wanted to happen has for different schedules. The first one it called: the fixed interval this is just means that you receive the reinforcement after a certain time this does means that the behavior does have to continue so you can deliver the positive reinforcement again and the time between the reinforcement has to be

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