Operant Conditioning Summarization

Operant conditioning is one of the most common ways psychologists study human behavior. The idea of operant conditioning is that a person may or may not repeat a certain behavior as a result of either positive or negative consequences given to them. Operant conditioning can be seen as a more elaborate version of classical conditioning. Both Ivan Pavlov and Ewdard Thorndike introduced and tested classical conditioning, but B.F. Skinner was the first psychologist to bring the idea of operant conditioning to the rest of the world. He also did what the others didn't, which was to also include humans in this. In operant conditioning, good behaviors are rewarded and reinforced while bad behaviors have punishments. This means a behavior can be removed or changed through its consequences.