THE BEHAVIORAL LEARNNG THEORY defines learning as a process through which
 experience
 causes permanent change in knowledg or behavior.

 This view of learning assumes that the outcome of learning is change in
 behavior and emphasizes the
 effects of external events on the individual.

 Examples of the Behavioral learning theory in action include:

 Classical Conditioning
 -an unconditioned stimulus is entered into a scenerio which produces an
 unconditioned response.
 -over time if the stimulus is continued, contiguity occurs and the stimulus
 begins to become assosiated
 with the response.
 -thus they now become the conditioned stimulus and conditioned response.

             Example:
                         -Every time Mike eats mexican food, he gets terrible
                          stomach pains.
                         -unconditioned stimulus- Mexican food
                         -unconditioned response- Stomach pains
                         -Soon mike forms a contiguity between eating mexican
                          food and getting stomach
                          pains, he realizes that he may be alergic to the food.
                         -Thus-
                         -conditioned stimulus- Mexican food
                         -conditioned response- Stomach pains

 Theorist-

 One theorist that who practiced this theory was B.F. Skinner, born 1904 in
 Pennsylvania and lived until
 1990.  He recieved a masters in psycology and his masters from Harvard where he
 was unitl 1936.  He
 was most well known for his air crib which became set the ground work for his
 operant conditioning
 theory.

 Operant Conditioning-
 This was an operation used to change an individuals behavior, either increasing
 or decreasing the
 frequency of a behavior through reinforcements and punishments.
 reinforcement- increases the frequency of behaviors
                    positive reinforcement- adds a stimulus
                    negative reinforcement- removes a stimulus
 punishment- decreases frequency of behaviors
                    Type I presentation punishment- adds an adverse stimulus
                    Type II removal punishment- removes a pleasent stimulus
 Example:
     Baby johnnie always chews on the legs of his mother's good furniture.  This
 gets his mother very
 angry. To end this behavior, his mother adds a Type II punishment to the
 situation and removes his