Chapter 6 In Your Everyday Life

Answering these questions will help you make these concepts more personally meaningful, and therefore more memorable.

  1. How have your emotions or behaviors been classically conditioned?

  2. Can you recall a time when a teacher, coach, family member, or employer helped you learn something by shaping your behavior in little steps until you achieved your goal?

  3. Think of a bad habit of yours or of a friend. How could you or your friend use operant conditioning to break it?

  4. Is your behavior in this class influenced more by intrinsic motivation or extrinsic motivation?

  5. Who has been a significant role model for you? What did you learn from observing this person? Are you a role model for someone else?

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