PT001 module 3 learning act 2

Select one conditioning approach and share a strategy to mitigate bullying. Describe the conditioning approach you selected. In Discussions, share your views as to how you would use this approach to suggest a strategy to mitigate bullying. Following your mitigation strategy, operationalize the characteristics of your strategy according to the conditioning method you chose, such as UCS (unconditioned stimulus), UCR (unconditioned response), NS (neutral stimulus), CS (conditioned stimulus), CR (conditioned response) for classical conditioning; and positive reinforcers, negative reinforcers, punishers for operant conditioning. Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. —John B. Watson (1925) John Watson founded the behaviorist perspective of psychology, which evolved during the first half of the 20th century. As Watson’s quote suggests, the goal of behaviorism was to understand and be able to predict behavior under certain environmental conditions. Early studies in behaviorism included the use of animals. For example, Pavlov studied the effect of the sound of a bell, previously paired with food, on dogs’ salivary production. Thorndike and Skinner conducted studies using cats, pigeons, and rats. How might behaviorist theories be applied to humans, whose behaviors are based on more than instincts? The articles and media in this Learning Activity give you an opportunity to focus your attention on behaviorist theories to help explain real-life situations and behaviors. Consider how you might apply this Learning Activity to this Competency Assessment.