Edward Thorndike : B.F. Skinner

Edward Thorndike:

1. Explain Thorndike's puzzle-box experiment.
- It basically is putting a cat in the puzzle box, and watch the cat's behavior towards getting the food.

2. Explain Thorndike's "Law of Effect".
- The law of effect basically consists in a satisfactory result, when the individual demonstrates good respons toward a positive behavior that turns out to be a regular behavior to the individual, after repeating it several time over and over. In the other hand if this situation is followed, by a negative response it means that it will be much harder each time to condition the individual from a weak behavior to a strong, confident, and regular behavior.

3. Explain Thorndike's "Law of Exercise".
- Basically the law of excercise applies to all individuals in earth, because it states that each individual should practice, in other to get good at something in specific. "Practice makes perfect."

B.F. Skinner:

1. Explain Skinner's concept of Operant Conditioning
- What Skinner basically though about was that learning was an actual function of change in our behavior. Whe the individual changes in his or her behavior, it means that the enviorment around has made the subject to learn new things that are very important, and this changes its acting functions on certain things.

2. What does reinforcement always do?
- Basically what reinfocrcement is, to making the animal or person want to repeat the action they did because they were rewarded for the thing they did.


3. What does a punishment alsways do?
- Basically what punishment does, is that it reinforces the side on the individual that tells him not to like what he or he did, because she was punished in a certain way that it was not enjoyed, so little by little the animal or baby probably will stop acting that way, until he or she does not do it anymore.

4. Explain the difference between "postive" and "negative" as they are used in opernat conditioning.
- Basically positive and negative are better described as two sides that can balace the behavior of the animal or human being. As there are positive ways to change behavior there are also negative ways. A positive influence to a bad behavior would probably be to punish the individual. A negative influence to a good behavior would be not reinforcing, by gifting a treat or food or something that the individual enjoys.