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  • Catherine Comden

    Administrator
    February 21, 2022 at 12:50 pm

    @tondabenge Try bringing your questions here! What, specifically, are you struggling to understand?

    Here are a few memory tricks to help keep them straight:

    ????Classical conditioning works on emotional, visceral and automatic responses. Think of how listening to Mozart makes you calmer/more focused without any “doing” on your part. Classical= emotional.

    ????Operant conditioning is choice-based behavior with the expectation of a certain consequence. The “operant” is the individual choosing the behavior. Think of a rat in the box, pushing a lever – he is operating the lever, therefore he is the operant.