Describe Classical and Operant Conditioning

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Essay

Describe classical and operant conditioning. Next, identify the researcher who proposed the concept of classical conditioning and the researcher who introduced the idea of operant conditioning.

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Definitions:

Questionnaires

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Human Nature

The inherent characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, that all humans are presumed to share.

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The quality of being spontaneous, unplanned or arising naturally and without premeditation.

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