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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by classic [Man splashes conditioner on head]

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conditioning it's how Beethoven got those silky locks here's our question

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learning that influences our voluntary behavior is known as what and here are

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the potential answers... when

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you think of A classical conditioning you might think of Pavlov and his [Pavlov with lots of dogs]

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slobbering canines, mostly because you've been classically conditioned to

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associate classical conditioning with that experiment

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cool huh anyway classical conditioning is the process in which an innate

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response like drooling to a potent stimulus, like delicious food can come

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to be elicited in response to a previously neutral stimulus like a bell [A bell ringing]

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let's see it in action ring a bell, bring food, doggy drools ring

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a bell, bring food, doggy drools over and over and over again and then one day

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ring a bell but don't bring food what happens doggy still drools [Man rings bell and dog appears drooling]

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that's classical conditioning so does this fit what we're looking for

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no we're looking for learning that influences our voluntary behavior is

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drooling voluntary unless you're actively trying to drool in order to [Man drooling]

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gross someone out then no it's not so this can't be it if we're looking for

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learning that influences voluntary behavior then behavioral conditioning

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sounds about right almost as right as the ringing of the [Person ringing a bell]

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bell sorry drooled a little bit there anyway while it might sound right it

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also sounds a bit like it doesn't exist because it doesn't, because behavioral

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conditioning is actually known as operant conditioning which is the answer

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we were looking for and actually includes both reinforcement and

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punishment.. Operant conditioning involves the use of reinforcement and punishment

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to modify behavior and specifically helps in teaching adaptive conscious [Definition of operant conditioning]

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behavior let's look at our pal Mikey for a second Mikey here clearly doesn't like

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cleaning his room a whole lot however he realizes that by doing it he keeps his [Mikey sweeping his bedroom]

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parents happy and is able to earn an allowance because of it two positive

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forms of reinforcement that influence his voluntary behavior

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and as for the punishment well he knows that if he doesn't do it he'll face the

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wrath of yeah her so while D and E are part of the correct answer the complete

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answer we're looking for is B and if you'd excuse us we have to clean up

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the drool stop bringing that thing it's not funny [Man mopping up doggy drool]

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