Classical vs Operant

[Scooby]

What's meant by the difference between classical and operant conditioning in terms of "timing of the stimulus and response"?

Thanks 

[RTandon]

In classical conditioning the CS must be presented right before the UCS
Where as in operant conditioning the response has to occur before the reinforcer or the punishment can be presented.

Hope that makes sense!

[Soul_Khan]

Timing:
During classical conditioning the timing has to be very close so the organism can associate the UCS and CS.
During operant conditioning, initially you will have to provide the reinforcement/punishment after the desired response has been made with little time gap so the organism can associate the consequences of the behavior. However, you will need to use partial reinforcement to strengthen the learned response even more, for example by not reinforcing every correct response the organism is more likely to do the desired response because they expect that they will be reinforced if they do the correct response.

Type of response
The type of response is usually involuntary requiring little conscious awareness (e.g. salvation in the case of Pavlov's dog - it was involuntary and was in the control of the ANS) for classical conditioning whilst it is usually voluntary in the case of operant conditioning as the organism can choose to respond in a particular way and therefore the CNS is more active, but in some cases it can be involuntary.

[brenden]

Just to add to what has been said - generally the UCS has to be presented close to a second after the neutral stimulus (soon to be the CS) for an association to occur, whereas in operant conditioning, the consequence can occur some time after the response. Eg, Mum comes home after a day's work and sees that you cleaned the house and showers you with hugs and kisses (reinforcement), and you connect it with cleaning even though you actually did the cleaning seven hours ago.

[Limista]

What's meant by the difference between classical and operant conditioning in terms of "timing of the stimulus and response"?

Thanks 

In classical conditioning, stimulus comes before the response.
Example: unconditioned stimulus (food) presented before unconditioned response (salivation in response to food) occured

In operant conditioning, stimulus comes after response = reinforcement/consequence comes after behaviour/operant
Example: complete homework (behaviour) and then receive praise (stimulus/reinforcement ~ in this case the two terms are used interchangeably)

[mvfc22]

anyone have any notes on comparing and contrasting between the all the learning methods??

[monkeywantsabanana]

anyone have any notes on comparing and contrasting between the all the learning methods??

Check out the notes section on ATAR notes, or else, Grivas should have it. Happy searching!