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Originally Posted by vms1177 Yes, I remember all this from my Psychology 101 class. Pavlovs "classical condtioning" in my book, brings back some memories.   |
Yes. Operant conditioning takes Pavlov's classical conditioning one step further. Once the dog is "drooling" for the ring of the bell, we know he has come to associate the bell with food. So now, we use the "be" (the clicker) as a tool to let the dog know when he has EARNED his food. Dog does something we like, we click, he knows he's going to be rewarded, so he tries to do that thing again so that he can earn the reward again. That's how it works!