PSY260 – Educational Psychology

For this assignment, you are tasked with creating your own unique visual representation that depicts a comparison of these two theories – Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. By the Friday deadline, share your work with the class in the Unit 3 Assignment Forum. By the Sunday deadline, review your classmates’ work and provide at least one reply. Instructions: You can choose how you would like to create your visual representation of these two theories – perhaps by making a simple graph or chart in a Word document, creating a PowerPoint slide, or using an infographic. Whichever way you decide to create it, your visual representation must include the following:

• Key Concepts: Identify and briefly describe the key concepts of both theories.

• Defining Differences: Identify what most significantly differentiates this theory from the other

learning theories discussed in this unit.

• Application to Classroom: Provide three (3) brief examples for each theory of how it might

be used in a classroom setting [a total of six (6) examples in all].

Requirements:

• Provide at least one (1) peer response that elaborates on your classmate’s ideas with further comment or observation, presents a relevant new idea or viewpoint for consideration, and raises a question, or politely offers an alternative perspective.

• Include at least two (2) reference citations in correct APA style.

• Post the visual representation and your response to the Assignment Forum by the due dates listed above.