 Let's try and bridge the gap a little bit between the respondent and operant conditioning stuff Because in reality, you know as we talked about and as you've read about they're not as separate as what we tend to hint that they are You know we break out these procedures Because they are different things, but when it comes to our everyday behavior that really just makes a match So let's take a look at it This stuff is working all the time, right? There's no question that both of these things are happening at any given moment Especially with regard to humans. We are extremely susceptible to the operant conditioning stuff unbelievably. So That's one of the reasons why our species is so successful on this planet is because our sensitivity to operant conditioning Now the respondent conditioning a lot of organisms are sensitive to that but it's our unique combination of these things that Gives us a you know a leg up so to speak. They're not really exclusive of each other of each other though In you know again with my examples we say okay, here's a condition response Here's a condition stimulus which leads to a condition response or we say here's a discriminative stimulus Stimulus that leads to a response that is reinforced in reality Those things can just mix and match and be on top of each other So we often have respondent conditioning and that's one big component of our behavior We also have operant conditioning which is another big component of our behavior But really what it is is that everything that this combination of these things It is the behavior that we typically see Both processes are separate, but but they're going on concurrently. That's the easiest way to think of it Let's look at some examples here to help this make some more sense So reinforcement and punishment so operant actions these things produce emotional reactions Right, we call that respondent conditioning, right? So the the emotional reaction is a type of respondent conditioning So if I earn a reinforcer for example, that might make me happy okay, so that had the the reinforcer itself as a condition state or as a Something that's going to strengthen a behavior, but it also serves to elicit a response of happiness Now is that happiness a conditioned response or an unconditional response is a slightly different question But it shows that those two things interact, okay? So a another example a conditioned response occurs All right, so something that's unpleasant and you respond operantly to decrease that conditioned response When that when that conditioned response is decreased Then you have a negative reinforcement situation whatever you did to decrease that unpleasant conditioned response Is then going to be strengthened through negative reinforcement. So let's look at an example So you've got a a spider that's going to elicit fear, right? So that's classical conditioning. So you have Cs which is the spider elicits fear. That's your cr But if you run away from the spiders in the future, that's going to reduce your fear You know as the fear is getting smaller. Ha ha ha. Anyway, that's operant conditioning So there's your negative reinforcement So in the future you are going to avoid and or escape the presence of fighters at fighters Whatever that is spiders, which will then reduce your fear So here you see those two things respondent and operant working directly with each other And this is a good example of how Of how these things interact you can also think about it from the other perspective We're talking about negative reinforcement. You could talk about positive reinforcement What's something that produces something nice, right? So Maybe a particular store or something like that produces you know has food available that food is really nice So in the future you would access that particular Store so it's a positive reinforcing situation, but the food itself is an unconditioned Stimulus it's not fear it elicits happiness and satisfaction and those types of things So this stuff really is so integrated into each other and I kind of hinted at it hinted at it earlier when I talked about How Reinforcers are conditioned because this is some of that that process about how reinforces your condition And how these things just I've said it a bunch they interact, you know It's kind of interesting how it does so and it makes it very hard to tease any one behavior out And figure out is that a conditioned response or is that a Operantly conditioned response. What is it? You know, is it a cr? Is it an sd? Is it a? Behavior that's maintained through reinforcement punishment all those things it really becomes a challenge to see how all these things interact But that's part of the fun of it as well is figuring out what the result is and figuring out how to maintain and Modify these particular behaviors