Classical Conditioning
Suzanne Gilbert
PSY/390
July 24, 2011
Dr. Tyra Ripley
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Classical Conditioning Scenario
When I have to leave town for a few days my daughter misses me. I spray my pillow with my perfume, and I put my boxed fan in her room to sleep with. When she sleeps with me, on occasion, she goes to sleep to the hum of the fan. I provide these things for my daughter to sleep with so they will remind her of me, she is comforted, and pacified until I arrive home. This way she is using her aural and olfaction senses to stimulate contentment and peace. The sense of smell is an amazing way to flood the mind with memories of a specific event or individual. Odor molecules travel through the nasal cavity to the neurons that recognize different smells. These neurons trigger the olfactory nerve, in the center of the brain. The brain senses a particular odor and correlates with memories. Memory and sensation are connected in the brain, which are not fully understood (Smith, p. 35, 2011). Hearing can cause one to remember experiences. A sound sends sound waves funneling through the outer ear; moving to the inner ear, hitting the eardrum causing a vibration. This causes a chain reaction, carrying messages to the brain. The temporal lobe in the brain is responsible for hearing, memory, and interprets auditory stimuli. Emotions and learning build new neural pathways and networks. The brain can be changed by one’s experiences and stimulated by his or her senses, thus hearing a sound triggers memories (Patrick, p. 763, 1981).
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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.
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While many people may believe that learning is just a natural response that all animals are capable of, there is actually a more complex explanation on how we learn the things we do in order to survive in the world. Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are both basic forms of learning, they have the word conditioning in common. Conditioning is the acquisition of specific patterns of behavior in the presence of well-defined stimuli.
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.
Learning is the act of changing an organism’s behavior in response to an experience. Associative learning is when an organism links two events that occur close in time. When an organism learns to make associations, it is being conditioned. There are two types of conditioning. Operant conditioning is when an organism associates an action and the consequence of that action. It results in the organism adapting its behavior to maximize rewards and minimize punishment (Skinner). On the other hand, classical conditioning is a type of learning where an organism associates a certain stimulus and the response to it with a different stimulus. A neutral stimulus is associated with an unconditioned response to an unconditioned
Dollard and Miller suggested that classical conditioning can be used to show how babies learn to associate a particular stimuli, with a response. They implied that before attachment is formed, classical conditioning begin with an infant gaining pleasure through being fed. When the infant is fed, he associates with the primary caregiver providing him food. Over time, the infant will gain pleasure from the primary caregiver. The primary caregiver will eventually become a conditioned stimuli and pleasure will become a conditioned response. This is when the infant has learnt that the feeder provides pleasure. Soon after, attachment will be learned and
therefore, it is important to distinguish the two. Learning the different ways animals function and
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Classical and operant conditioning are two important concepts used to format a person’s behavior in terms of learning. These are two different processes.
Although classical conditioning is something that most people experience in a daily basis, it may also be the first thing someone remembers in a day. According to Olson and Hergenhahn (2009) classical conditioning is defined as a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that response. In this paper the subject is to describe the theory of classical conditioning as well as describing a scenario in which one could apply classical conditioning theory to, and bring forth the scenario by showing illustrations of how this could be used
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1. Classical conditioning experiment Signal (NS) Turn on the computer UCS Tickle UCR Laugh CS Turn on the computer CR Laugh Opening the computer typically do not elicit any response. My roommate is quite ticklish, therefore, whenever I tickle her she would laugh. I can utilize this as an unconditioned response. If she turns on her computer, she would hear the signature window sound opening.
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Physical structure and culture links to symbolic conditioning. Symbolic conditioning is basically conditions expectation and behaviors that’s created from the power of built spaces. Organizations use symbolic conditioning through servicing customers. For example, if a new pair of Jordan shoes come out for the first time, you’ll see customers stand in long lines until they get serviced. On top of that, they’re being more conditioned because they are given tickets to reserve their new pair of Jordan’s while they stand in line. The embodiment theory explains how having a human body can influence the epistemology and this can have an effect to the physiological aspects of spatial orientation. For example, in organizations human body are used to
Using examples of both classical and operant conditioning, discuss the contributions and limitations of learning theory for the understanding of behaviour (Schacter et al., 2nd Ed, Chapter 6, also see Chapter 1 for historical context)