conditioning strategies

Conditioning strategies are methods used to help individuals learn new behaviors or skills through repeated practice and reinforcement. Essentially, they involve pairing certain actions with positive outcomes to encourage those actions to happen more often, or associating undesired behaviors with negative outcomes to reduce their occurrence. Common techniques include gradually increasing difficulty (shaping), rewarding desired behaviors (reinforcement), and reducing cues for unwanted behaviors. These strategies are used in areas like education, therapy, and training to promote lasting behavioral change by systematically adjusting environment and feedback to influence responses.