Question

Apply either classical conditioning principles or operant conditioning principles to demonstrate how you might hypothetically modify your own behavior include the process you would use and how you would maintain the new and improved behavior after learning had occurred. The answer should include a discussion of the unconditioned stimulus and response for classical conditioning or include a discussion stimulus and response for classical conditioning or positive/negative reinforcement/punishment for operant conditioning.

Answer 1

• Operant conditioning was used by my mother to change our late night eating habits.I used to to eat dinner really late which she modified eventually. She started using negative reinforcement to increase the likelihood of eating on time.Whenever I used to eat late around midnight,she nagged me do all the dishes and clean the table and eventually to avoid my mother's nagging i.e. aversive stimulus I made sure I modified my behaviour and started eating early i.e. the time she set.This nagging worked as negative reinforcement to modify my behaviour of unhealthy eating.