Educational psychologists maintain that children need love, affection, parental guidance, counselling, motivation and conditioning for their cognitive development and emotional balance. Classical, operant or pavlovian conditioning is simplified as a conditioned reflex or response to a stimulus which depends upon the former experience of the individual. A conditioned reflex presents a conditioned stimulus which results in a conditioned response. To encourage the response to a stimulus by giving or not giving a reward is referred to as re-inforcement. A positive re-inforcement presents a positive stimulus which yields a positive response, whilst a negative reinforcement offers a negative stimulus and results in a negative response.
Conditioning is a more scientific, effective and efficient method of correction and discipline.