In psychology, there are countless approaches to how a subject might learn something; in this article, however, we will talk about classical conditioning, the operant condition and also its application in reality. First we will discuss the differences between classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning occurs when the unconditioned stimulus is paired with the conditioned stimulus so that the subject can learn it. However, students must have a neutral mindset about the conditioned stimulus for it to be considered classical conditioning. This type of conditioning has reflex responses, that is, it reacts involuntarily to a stimulus; salivation could be an example. There are 2 different types of reinforcement and punishment in operant conditioning. Positive reinforcement is a type where an additional reward is added to increase the behavior, while negative reinforcement is when the reward is taken away to increase the behavior. Basically, reinforcement is the act of increasing the behavior while punishment is the act of decreasing it. Positive punishment is when additional punishment is needed to decrease the behavior while negative punishment works vice versa. However, for it to be effective, it must be relevant to the organism and must be equated with the crime or transgression. Operant conditioning should have voluntary responses rather than reflex responses, meaning that after subjects have learned, they should respond to the stimulus voluntarily rather than being acted upon. It has contingency since there must be rewards or punishments in the learning process for subjects to learn something. Skeletal muscle is where the influence of this type of learning comes from, making it a voluntary response rather than a reflex. For example, the pursuit of a good grade in class; you could say that there are many reasons why students want to get a good grade. The good grade is the reward that students get after doing what they were supposed to do (good performance in class). This is an example of positive reinforcement, where the better the class performs, the better the grade the students get. B.F. Skinner's experiment known as the Skinner box also uses positive reinforcement; the rat in the experiment was placed in a box where it would get food from the dispenser when it pressed the bar (Liliendfeld, 2014). However, the rat did not always receive the food as the timing of food distribution varied. This is an example showing how the mouse would get food as a reward; acts as a reinforcer for the rat to press the bar more. However, if we look at the case where we are a life coach and we work with a client who wants to stop biting his nails. Operant conditioning could be a solution to his problem; one way to solve it could be to adopt positive punishment. Every time she tries to bite her nails, we force her to put a pair of gloves on her hands; therefore he could no longer bite his nail, and after trying for a long time to reach his nails he ended up feeling the pressure of having to carry multilayers of