Issues And Concerns: Classical Conditioning

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C. Issues/Concerns
Issues that may occur with this type of study and practice can lead to long lasting harm. In Watson's study using an infant and rats, he causes the infant to become terrified of rats therefore cause a phobia that this infant may have the rest of his life. This takes into effect of training and studying humans and animals inhumanly. It is important that people and humans are aware of their surroundings and how to handle themselves however, there is a difference between training using the right and appropriate methods.
If a child is being taught what is morally right in certain circumstances by showing them what their mistakes are and how it can be fixed is something that allows the child to know that next time if they were to do something like before it could cause either consequences or rewards. Many of the times a child will see it once and know and learn from it. They don't need to be tormented into acquiring what is right and what is wrong.
D. Impact on planning of instructional activities
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For example, as a teacher you can play games that have a timer or buzzer. This allows for the children to think quickly about the question given and what the answer may be before the time is up. Another example of this would include showing the students examples that they are able to identify as positive or negative reinforcements with pictures. Asking the children questions can also help the students understand what classical conditioning is. Such as asking them about training animals. Going into depth about how the animal was trained, and what was the end result? This allows the children to focus in on the definitions of classical and operant