Operant Conditioning

B.F. skinner discovered Operant conditioning, which is often referred to as instrumental conditioning. You might also hear some call it Skinnerian conditioning for the fact that skinner coined the name. Operant conditioning is the method of learning that takes place...

Classical Conditioning

In 1913, an American psychologist, who happens to mark a milestone in the history of psychology, is a founder of Behaviorism- a School of Thought. John B. Watson was of the view that a human behavior was not the result of internal mental processes. Also, claimed that...

Extinction in Psychology ?

In Pavlov conditioning, which is popular known as classical conditioning, in its experiment of a dog who develops an association of food with the ringing bell, but when the bell rang continuously, and no food came, unconditioned response i.e. salivation stops...