Setting up Operant or Classical Conditioning Strategies

1. Identify the behavior or behaviors you want to work on. Is this a classical or operant situation?

2. Do you want to increase or decrease the behavior?

OPERANT
CLASSICAL
Positive reinforcement
More pairings of CS and UCS
Negative reinforcement
escape
avoidance
Stronger UCS
OPERANT CLASSICAL
Extinction Extinction
Punishment Counterconditioning
Reinforce an incompatible response Systematic Desensitization
Exhaustion (Implosive Therapy)

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