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As I reread this topic several times and tried to bring it to life to write an intelligent paper on it, I had to search my memory for the actions that made me think, learn, act and react. So, I took a trip down memory lane and thought back to my childhood and started thinking of my elementary school days, high school days, military days, right on through to raising my children and now attempting college myself. What a trip! I’m not sure if I am learning anything or if I just keep going to see where I will wind up. At any rate, I will try to apply all these things into this paper as well as where I relate it in the book “Hilgard’s Introduction to Psychology”. …show more content…

So here it is safe to say that association is classical conditioning and motivation is an integral form of this learning method. Taking this a step further, there is another form of conditioning known as aversive conditioning this happens when you begin to associate a negative act as a reaction to doing something wrong. An example would be, when we are in our teen years, and all our friends are smoking, and it is our turn to do the nasty deed, we vacillate, “to do or not to do”. We internally hear all the negatives regarding smoking, but we see our friends saying “just come on, do it”. We know if we are caught doing this act, there will be much negative reaction from our parents, in the form of a huge punishment, so the big question we ask ourselves, is peer pressure worth it, or should I just say no. If I smoke, I pay a consequence in getting grounded, if I say no, will my friends mock me? (We will cover peer pressure in a later paper). So, aversive conditioning comes when we know a negative reaction will come from doing an iniquitous deed. Making the difference in classical conditioning and aversive conditioning, the way a reward or motivation is utilized, either granting positive reinforcement, or creating negative responses. (Hilgard p245)

Observational learning is yet another form of learning, when we are children, we learn by watching what goes on around us (TV, parents, friends, and other children). Young children watch the

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