Assignment: Application of Respondent (Classical) Conditioning Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is heavily influenced by operant conditioning. The vast majority of your curriculum in ABA focuses on operant conditioning and its applications. However, respondent (classical) conditioning also has its appropriate applications in ABA. The behaviorist assumptions that all learning occurs through observable interactions with the environment […]

Discussion: Respondent and Operant Conditioning Operant and respondent (classical) conditioning are both used to establish and modify behaviors. These concepts originated in the field of behavioral psychology and share similarities and differences. Perhaps the clearest example of the difference between the two concepts is whether the behavior to be modified is automatic (i.e., involuntary) or […]

Week 8: Respondent and Operant Conditioning Among the foundational concepts of applied behavior analysis (ABA) are respondent (classical) conditioning and operant conditioning. While operant conditioning clearly dominates the ABA field, there are also appropriate uses of respondent (classical) conditioning. In both cases, the behavior analyst seeks to manipulate the environment in order to effect behavior […]

In this week’s Discussion, you identified and defined examples of behavior, response, and response class from your own behavioral repertoire. For this Assignment, using your behavioral repertoire, you will further explore these concepts by identifying another response class and five corresponding responses. Additionally, you will analyze which of the five responses you use most frequently […]

Discussion: Behavior and Environment “Behavior analysis is characterized by a functional analysis of the effects of the behavior on the environment. A response class is a group of responses with the same function (that is, each response in the group produces the same effect on the environment)” (Cooper et al., 2020, p. 27) PSYC 6717: […]