DISCRIMINATION

DISCRIMINATION

1. It means that the individual has learned to distinguish or respond differently to one stimulus than to another.

   • Discrimination involves the elicitation of a response only in the presence of a specific discriminative stimulus, and not in the presence of similar stimuli.
   • Discrimination is useful when a particular response is not appropriate in similar situations. For example, behaviour that is appropriate in a fast-food restaurant, such as eating with your hands, may not be appropriate in a French restaurant.

2. Operant Conditioning focuses on the effects of consequences on behaviors. The operant model of learning begins with the idea that certain consequences tend to make certain behaviors happen more frequently.

   • If a student tells a joke to several classmates and they laugh at it, then the student is more likely to tell additional jokes in the future and so on.

3. Operant Conditioning and Students’ Learning -A seventh-grade boy makes a silly face (the operant) at the girl sitting next to him. Classmates sitting around them giggle in response (the reinforcement). A kindergarten child raises her hand in response to the teacher’s question about a story (the operant). The teacher calls on her and she makes her comment (the reinforcement).

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