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Condicionamiento Operante de Skinner: Recompensas & Castigos

  Operant conditioning is based on the idea that we can increase or decrease a certain behavior by adding a consequence. For example, if a dog poops on a carpet, we can reinforce to do it again or punishment to stop it.   Both reinforcement and punishment can be positive or negative, which means we…

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El Efecto Pigmalión

  The Pygmalion Effect is the phenomenon whereby higher expectations lead to higher performance. It can best be understood by a circle where our beliefs about another person,’s, abilities, influence our actions towards this person.   These actions have an impact on others,’ beliefs about themselves, Beliefs about themselves, cause the actions of others towards…

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