Learning: Classical Conditioning

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

Cognitive and behavior therapy can combine the techniques of both of these approaches or focus on one of the two. The paper will discuss these schools, their origins and techniques.

Observational learning is observing behaviors from a model and then making them your own by imitation

As early as I can remember, my house growing up was always free of bell peppers. My mother is allergic to them; even the smell makes her sick to her stomach. I always wondered if I was allergic to them as well, but never took any chances as a child and didn’t eat them either. Even to this day when dining out with my parents my mother always asks “are there bell peppers in this” her face would always have that crinkled up nose, that look of disgust on her face when she says it, as would anyone who has a food allergy especially to a common food like bell peppers. From this experience I learned not to like bell peppers either, as a young a child develops that sense

Classical conditioning has been around for some time in psychology. Now we are able to relate classical conditioning to nursing practice and education. Classical conditioning can be defined as a learning process when two stimuli are being paired together over and over. Nausea and vomiting are common in patients experiencing chemotherapy treatment. Patients with cancer are typically exposed to a very specific environment in the hospital. This setting would be the conditioned stimulus. The exposure to the hospital happens before the patient receives chemotherapy, which has nausea and vomiting as side effects. This would be the unconditioned stimulus. A patient being exposed over and over to the

famously known by Pavlov’s dog experiment. In that study, dogs were trained to correlate a light

Furthermore, through learning, a person undergoes behavioral changes, as well as changes in skills, attitude and knowledge. Therefore this

Throughout the course, I learned that learning is a continuous and intricate process. There is not quite one theory that fully explains this process, and more often, learning is a combination of the theories (e.g. Pavlor’s classical conditioning, Skinner’s operant conditioning, Tolman’s latent learning/place learning, Bandura’s social learning). Learning appears to be a life-long process (since the hippocampus, which plays a role in learning and memory, undergoes neurogenesis throughout adulthood; also, our synaptic connections are constantly changing as we learn new information), and involves developing and maintaining associations between behaviors and events. These associations are either reinforced or punished, helping the organism distinguish

For humans, there are many different types of ways they think they can “learn”. Learning is a biological process and starts by communication. The brain undergoes many changes throughout the process of learning. Factors like studying, repetition, sleep, multitasking, and planning can be an impact on what you learn, and how much you learn of it. The brain is the control system of all the parts in our body. When the brain receives information from the outside, it sends signals (neurons) down and transfers/changes it into proteins. The proteins then make the cells turn on the DNA in the nuclei, and makes new material. When this happens information turns into knowledge.

Modeling and imitation are two learning methods that goes together, you can not have one without the other. These methods refers to mimicking through observation and later enacting the observed behavior or actions of others. Modeling can be defined as an antecedent stimulus that evokes the imitative behavior.The model must serve as a controlling variable for the imitative behavior (Cooper et al. 2007, p.421).

Learning is throughout our life span in this planet. All humans, animal, and any other form existence have a method of learning. We also learn by seeing or mimicking others. Learning is very important and also knowing learning style is important too. However, There are many learning procedures out there which require with beliefs, behavior, attitudes, knowledge, and various of skills.

Reading skills are essential to learning all other subjects taught in school. The sharper the reading skills children have and the earlier they accumulate them will determine how rapidly and how well they will achieve in school. That is why it is very crucial to get students motivated to read at a young age. Research has consistently shown that children who are exposed to reading or who read regularly gather long term benefits such as better academic performance, a mastery of language, better communication skills and more logical thinking, Nevertheless many parents struggle with generating ideas to encourage or motivate their children to read. There are three learning principles that can be used to help parents help their children get motivated to read. Those learning principles are Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning and Observational Learning.

When it comes to absorbing information into a useful format that can be used and applied into our experience of life, learning matters. Recently, I have begun to look at the idea of learning in a new way, thanks to the work of many researchers who sought to understand how the human mind learns. In this paper, I will focus on one particular learning model that was presented by Neal Fleming and discuss how it affects my personal learning.

Attention: Observers cannot learn unless they pay attention to what's happening around them. This process is influenced by characteristics of the model, such as how much one likes or identifies with the model, and by characteristics of the observer, such as the observer's expectations or level of emotional arousal.

In this essay the ways in which classical conditioning principals have been used to treat problem behaviours in humans will be discussed. Firstly the findings of Ivan Pavlov’s research experiment on classical conditioning will be explained. Then a number of his basic principals that include extinction, spontaneous recovery, stimulus generalisation and acquisition will be explored. Finally, the use of behavioural therapy in treating problem behaviours, specifically in relation to systematic desensitisation and flooding will be reviewed.