Conditioning

Michael Taillard and Holly Giscoppa

Chapter Chapter 15 in Psychology and Modern Warfare, 2013, pp 165-170 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Conditioning is the process of engineering particular behaviors in people through the application of specific types of responses to the decision that people make. This is done by providing individuals or groups with specific types of stimulus, rewards or punishments, when actions are taken, which are desirable or undesirable, respectively, in order to make those behaviors more or less likely to occur again—conditioning a specific response. Broadly speaking, rewards are those things that the recipient finds desirable and will work to earn them again, while punishments are those things that the recipient finds undesirable and will work to avoid them. This is the basis for both of two forms of conditioning—operant and classical, both of which have strategic military applications in managing the actions and behaviors of not only the opposition, but also one’s own forces and even neutral parties, if one can find a tactically beneficial purpose for doing so.

Keywords: Conditioned Stimulus; Unconditioned Stimulus; Conditioned Response; Classical Conditioning; Operant Conditioning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137347329_17

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