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.