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| Providing a negative stimulus after the behavior has occurred. |
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| 3 Drawbacks to Punishment |
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- Receive attention from parents (seen as a reward).
- Child misbehaves as much as possible.
- Children who receive excessive punishment tent to inflict punishment on others
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| What is Programed Learning? |
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- Operant Conditioning techniques; presenting stimuli
- Helps subject respond correctly; material learned in small amounts in specific order
- Subject presented to learner in series of small steps
- Learners find out immediately if response is correct or not.
- If correct, immediately reinforced by knowledge that their right (reinforcement)
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| Individual moves step-by-step in a line through material. Keeping to the sequence whether right or wrong. |
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Given another sequence depending on their answer.
- If correct, they are presented with the next question
- If wrong, branched off into some extra material on that subject
- If they do real well they are allowed to skip some material
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| Process of learning to voluntarily regulate bodily responses. |
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| How does biofeedback occur? |
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| Through knowledge of results about a particular physiological response. |
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- Learn to reduce frequency of headaches
- Learn to control/lower blood pressure
- Can be used with overactive children
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Involves:
- Organizing info
- Making comparisons
- Forming associations
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Realively sudden change in one's perception of a problem that results in the soultion of a problem
*Insight is based on past experience
*Appears quickly after a period of little/no progress |
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| Difference Between Insight and Conditioning |
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Insight: Learners are aware of steps in their thinking
Conditioning: Learners aren't likely to recall themselves saying "I see the light" (Ahha! moment) |
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