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unusual facts about Operant conditioning


Attachment therapy

By the use of confrontation the model offers the means to condition children to comply with parental expectations.


Edwin Ray Guthrie

Guthrie’s theories went against those of Watson’s classical conditioning and Skinner’s operant conditioning due mainly to Guthrie’s insistence that their “desire for results of immediate practical applications” led to their theories being wrong.

Jerzy Konorski

Jerzy Konorski (December 1, 1903 in Łódź, Poland – November 14, 1973 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish neurophysiologist who further developed the work of Ivan Pavlov by discovering secondary conditioned reflexes and operant conditioning.


see also

Social learning theory

Within this context, Albert Bandura studied learning processes that occurred in interpersonal contexts and were not adequately explained by theories of operant conditioning or existing models of social learning, such as the work of Julian Rotter.