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Essay / Operant Behavior Essay - 831
Vicarious conditioning involves learning the consequences of an action by seeing someone else complete the action and dealing with the consequences. An example would be seeing your friend get in trouble from your teacher for swearing in class. Seeing a classmate get into trouble would teach an individual not to swear at school. There is also observational learning, which involves learning by seeing and imitating the behavior of other people. An example is learning to do laundry by watching a parent do laundry. If a person watches their parents prepare laundry, load the washer, and then transfer the clothes to the dryer, they might imitate this and learn the behavior. I could use observational learning in my own situation and teach Tori to collect her homework supplies by constantly collecting my own supplies. She observed me keeping the room clean and putting things away, and imitated my