Operant conditioning is a form of learning. In the learning process the individual changes behaviour because of the repercussion of the behaviour. The person learns that their behaviour has a repercussion when lead to changing the behaviour. The result may be positive or negative If a mother is cooking chapatti on her pan and her five year old son nearby smelling the chapatti’s decided he will reach over to take the chapatti cooking on the hot pan. The mother slaps his hands and warns his son
demonstrated how phobias can be learnt through the process of Classical Conditioning. Classical Conditioning principles has been applies to many forms of treatment, one being anti-phobia treatments. One of the main principles in Conditioned learning is extinction. This principle implies that a conditions response will decrease in intensity if the conditioned stimulus is repeated without the unconditioned stimulus. In other words it is possible to decrease the intensity of a phobia in an
An estimated 300 million tons of plastic are found in the world’s oceans, thrown by people. But the plastic is not just floating on the surface. It is even inside the stomachs of crustaceans that live on the deepest ocean floor, Sacramento Bee reported. The extent of plastic invasion demonstrates how far humans have damaged the ecology with their wrong sanitation habits. The only directions where the plastic thrown into the ocean would end are washed back on the shore or sank to the deep sea, Dr
The Sixth Extinction Critique Essay Jeff Corwin’s essay, “The Sixth Extinction,” addresses the global crisis of the disappearance of different species. “But if we don’t all rise to the cause and join them in action, they cannot succeed,” Corwin states in his last paragraph. I agree, despite lots of species dying out, we need to make a difference and try to help the animals. In the essay, Corwin says that the Sixth Extinction is on its way. He uses several examples of species being decimated by
Hendrik Poinar and George Poinar Jr. are two extraordinary scientists who have made countless breakthroughs in the world of de-extinction. De-extinction is basically the re-creation of extinct species by different means---including a way by manipulating the genome of the species closest living relative. Scientists can also clone the ancient DNA fragments of organisms trapped in substances like amber, and then try to sew the fragments together in a loop and read the nucleotide letters. Woolly mammoths
I never thought seeing my mom’s boyfriend get bit by a Zebra would be my reverse Pandora’s box. When I was younger my family and I went on our annual summer vacation but this time to Texas. We had decided on going on a safari, where we would have the opportunity to see a variety of exotic animals in a more natural habitat than the zoo. The safari operators made it a point to make sure there was a surplus of signs explicitly stating not to feed the animals from your hand, but instead to throw it
these birds are from 1497, when various French ships arrived at some cod-fishing grounds in Newfoundland. After their discovery, more and more humans came to their habitat, killed them, and stole their eggs. This was continued until they were near extinction. Legend has it that the last reported great auks was a breeding pair with only one egg. Three fishermen found them, and while two strangled the parents, one smashed the egg with his boot, thus ending the great auk species.
reacts in the same manner, as when they are about to be yelled at, there reaction is a conditioned response. The snap is paired with the yelling so the child expects yelling after they hear a snap. The un-pairing of the snap and the yelling is called extinction, so the child would no longer anticipate to be yelled at after hearing a
Argumentative Essay 1 Panda Bear populations in Central China are endangered with less than 1600 pandas residing in the wild. The article, "Is Breeding Pandas in Captivity Worth It?" by Christine Dell' Amore questions the effectiveness of millions of dollars invested in breeding pandas in captivity. Pandas are attractive to the public in zoos causing people to care and contribute to the conversation cause. These conservationists try to breed pandas under pressure in captivity in effort to stabilize
Going to the zoo can be a very fun trip for the family. It helps teach kids about the many types of animals and how they are different and how they are similar. One example of animals that are similar but have distinct differences are lions and platypuses. First off, both lions and platypuses have many things in common. The most likely connection most people will make between the two animals is their classification of Mammalia. Being a mammal indicates that the animal under that classification is