If you have ever trained a pet, chances are you have used a regular schedule of rewards and punishments to help an animal learn or change behavior.
Whether consciously or not, you used experienced operant conditioning in those moments. Operant conditioning is a theory of learning in behavioral psychology that emphasises the impact that rewards and punishments for certain behaviors can have on future actions.The goal of operant conditioning is simple: Reinforce desirable behaviors through a system of rewards and eliminate undesirable behaviors through targeted punishments.
While many behavioral therapies are rooted in insights and internal understanding, behavioral therapy is more action-based and focuses on using learned strategies to avoid
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