Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning is a form of learning that is taught to us through experiences we encounter in our lives. It involves outside stimuli to trigger the condition we have learned to expect. For example, the sound of a lunch bell would trigger our stomach to start growling soon after hearing the bell ring. The expectation of food to come soon after hearing the bell and satisfy our hunger is what makes our stomach growl. This is something learned over time. Expectations can be both good and bad. Sometimes these negative experiences cause us to have certain behaviors when we are reminded of such an event.

The play, Fences, in conclusion acquires many interpretations of the “fence” that is mentioned variously. Despite there only being one physical fence, it represents many figurative fences throughout the play. The “fence” is signified as having both positive and negative

The example used in this paper goes back to when I was around seven or eight years old, and I ate some spoiled broccoli and cheese soup. I ended up getting food poisoning from the bad bacteria in the soup, and I was sick for two days. Ever since then, broccoli and cheese soup has made me feel nauseous.

In this booklet you will find an overview of all the different approaches to psychology. This will consist of the key assumptions, examples of the relevant psychologists and examples of their work, as well as an exploration into the advantages and disadvantages that some of these approaches possess.

Explain the initial pairing of the banging bar and the rat in terms of learning through classical conditioning.

There are two learning processes that are used, classical condition and operant conditioning. One learning process used is classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response. I found two TV commercials that are excellent examples for classical conditioning. The first commercial I found is an Old Spice commercial. The ad starts off with an attractive man in a bathroom telling women to compare the men in their lives to him, stating that if men would stop using girl body wash they could be like him. The ad then moves to a boat where the man in the commercial offers the women in the audience two tickets to something they would enjoy and diamonds and then states that anything is possible if men used Old Spice as a body wash to smell like a man, not a lady. The second commercial I chose is a Nike advertisement. Throughout the advertisement there are young, attractive, fit, and famous people working hard to succeed.

While learning to drive a car, I have experienced the elements of classical conditioning. Conditioned stimulus was a car that rapidly stopped in front of me.

The first time I can recall using Classical conditioning was when I was younger. When I was about five or six I had a sleepover and my friends and we decided to make popcorn to eat while watching our movies. When we heard the microwave stop we went and opened the microwave, and watched black smoke rise out of the microwave and into the air, which then triggered the smoke alarm. We all started acting in an unconditioned response, screaming and panicking we did not know what to do since we never experienced a loud, ear piercing noise and dark smoke before. The classical conditioning is when the other girls and I panicked in response to the noise and smoke. My mother told us it was alright and it was just the fire alarm going off because we

I have never felt so scared in my life, running from demons to save someone we don’t know for a place we don’t know. Running up the steps with Tock nipping my ankles to run faster. We broke down the door that led into the Princess tower. This door was a beautiful gold and ruby door, but something was wrong, the door was already open. After search the whole tower, I couldn’t find the princesses. They were gone. I went upstairs to the bedroom, still nothing. I looked around the room and found something carved into the wall. “We don’t need numbers.” I had no idea what this meant. “Let’s go.” I sad to Tock, “the demons have to be close.” I see the Humbug, hardly able to stand. His legs were like spaghetti, with his whole body shaking from fear.

Screams filled the air. The fire crackled maliciously and the timber above creaked ominously. A barbarian with naked sword in hand ran past the open door. Athos shoved his sister behind him. The clash of swords, the screams of the dying, the cries of those to be sold as slaves echoed in the air terribly. The baby in his sister's arms wailed in terror.

Our understanding of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning has allowed us to unlock many of the answers we sought to learn about human behavior. Classical conditioning is a technique of behavioral training, coined by Ivan Pavlov, which basically states that an organism learns through establishing associations between different events and stimuli. This helps us understand human behavior in an assortment of ways. It makes it clear that almost everything we do is based on patterns of stimulus and response. For example, if you were bitten aggressively by a dog as a child, you may be still scared of dogs today. That is because the dog caused you pain, which in turn caused you have anxiety towards dogs.

My toes touched behind me, pinned to the floor by my own weight. Grating the wooden structure, my knees bled into the cracks of the church. Be one with it, Sister Jacklyn said. I heard her now, above my head. The crack of her walking stick, the rattle of her bones, I heard her whisper my name, “Bobby.” I tightened my hands together in front of me, and bowed my head farther until my neck stretched its last fiber. An abyss of darkness. A cross of blood.

Analyzing research methods used for uncovering basic emotions applied to the Cannon-Bard emotion theory and Drive reduction arousal theory. The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion is a stimulating event takes place, emotional, and physiological changes occur (Changing Minds, 2010). A person may feel muscular tension as well as sweating to the situation. A research method associated with the Cannon-Bard emotion theory would be the evolution theory. This method is an idea where emotion aids species survival (Decker, 2010). An example: A person is hiking through the woods approaches a snake. The appearance of the snake evokes fear, which in return causes the emotional experience. Fear produces behavior and emotion to run, muscular tension, or possibly cry. The emotion evoked by the predator or event causes the survival. The Drive reduction arousal theory is an approach to motivation that assumes behavior arises. Arousal is the source of emotions. Second, arousal is the impetus for attending to

This paper contains information on classical conditioning and explores several articles from some of the early and most famous physiologists like Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and others that researched classic conditioning and how it may help explain fear and the many different types of

One example of classical conditioning that I have experienced in my everyday life is my cat’s response to hitting a spoon on a can of cat food. Classical conditioning involves learning a new behavior through the process of association. A new behavior can easily be learned by conditioning a person or pet to respond to a certain stimulus. My cat is a perfect example of classical conditioning that I see every day. Every morning when it is time to feed my cat I walk outside and hit a spoon on the side of her cat food can. As soon as the spoon strikes the can my cat comes running. The unconditioned stimulus is the sound of hitting the spoon on the can, and the unconditioned response is my cat receives food. Now, whenever I hit a can of food with a spoon my cat will come running because she assumes that I am about to feed her. Now that I know what my cat’s response is to the sound I often use it to my advantage. If I want my cat’s attention all I have to do is make the sound and she will come running.