Conditioning

This week in class we learned a lot about conditioning. Conditioning is training an animal to do something by giving their behaviors consequences. These could either be negative consequences or positive consequences, depending on if they did what the person wanted them to do. There are a lot of different ways to condition people too. One show I watch is The Big Bang Theory. In this show, Sheldon decides to try his own experiment and condition Leonard's girlfriend, Penny, by giving her a piece of chocolate every time she does something that he considers "good behavior". The kind of conditioning Sheldon is doing is called operant conditioning. Check it out: