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Secret of Happy life | choose present over past and future

 Choose your present over past and future | secret of a happy life Life is just like a lesson we learn, gain knowledge, try to adjust in new environment or phase of life and throughout our life we learn we implement and this is how life goes on.  Sometimes we achieve our goals sometimes we don't, sometimes we fail and at another time we got success. Life is like ups and down, there is happiness as well as sadnesses.  If you are facing problems, have financial issues, have family trouble, have social pressures, dear this is what life is.  Try to live in a current situation, because you can give best of you and you have situations in your hand. Not to look at past and future because you have nothing to do with that and ofcourse you cannot. If past is full of regrets then try to understand that you can't do anything what you have done wrong in past. Try to learn from mistake and move on.  And why looking at future ? Achieve your goals one by one, have patience and ...
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Learning by conditioning

 Learning through association and learning by conditioning is the same to know. The association is taken between the stimulus and the response. Pavov and BF Skinner are famous for the experiments on conditional learning.

Classical conditioning

Classical conditioning means a kind of learning in which the response is made due to the stimulus that is neutral and that naturally bring about the response.

Pavlov is the founder of classical conditioning and he did experiment on the dog. He inserted a tube in the dogs cheek to measure the saliva. During the experiment he saw that the dog secreted saliva not only at the time when he was eating food but also at the time when he saw the utensils of the food or when he saw the man who brought food for him. Then according to his experiment he put a bell before dog have a food. Now the well rang was the conditioned stimulus or learned stimulus.

 He further modified is experiment and then he concluded the food as the unconditional stimulus that is natural saliva is the unconditional response and the bell is the conditions stimulus and saliva is the condition response.

Operant conditioning or instrumental conditioning


Skinner conducted the experiments on the cat in the box his experiments are based on thorndike's experiments. He designed a box and named Skinner box for conducting experiment or rights and pigeon he said that conditions stimulus is helpful for unconditional stimulus.

He focused on primary and secondary reinforcement and positive ,negative reinforcement.




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