How do you use classical conditioning to shape behaviour of an impulsive child?
People frequently mis-use the term “Classical Conditioning”. The contributor above has described some of the basic elements of what is called “Operant Conditioning”, and that is probably what you were asking about. You would not want to use Classical Conditioning on a child. I’m not sure that there would even be a way to do it that would give you results that you want. Classical Conditioning involves pairing an “unconditioned response”, like salivation when given food, or the iris of the eye getting smaller when expose to stronger light, to a “conditioned stimulus”, like the sounding of a bell. Think Pavlov. Repeatedly ring a bell just when you give food to a hungry dog. If you get the timing right, the dog will salivate when you ring the bell.
