Operant Conditioning and Observational Learning
When you were a child, how did you learn the following items?
- Looking both ways before crossing the street;
- Saying please and thank you;
- Standing quietly in line at school;
- Taking turns; and
- Not interrupting others while they talk.
Perhaps you learned these behaviors as a result of receiving praise or punishment, or by watching how others acted. Did you seem to respond better to positive or negative consequences? Visualize a time when you remember learning one of these rules. Then, re-create the scenario by drawing a representation of the events.