Classical conditioningds

• Classical conditioning

  • Argues that an unconditioned response can be triggered by a neutral stimulus through repeated pairing, eventually the neutral stimulus alone produces the conditioned response
• UCS -> UCR

  UCS -> NS -> UCR

  CS -> CR
• Unconditioned Stimulus

  An event that produces an unlearned reflex response
• Unconditioned Response

  An unlearned reflex behavior that an organism produces when exposed to an unconditioned stimulus
• Neutral stimulus

  An event that does not produce a response
• Conditioned stimulus

  An event that produces a learned response
• Conditioned response

  A learned physical reflex behavior that an organism produces when exposed to a conditioned stimulus
• Before conditioning

  • A naturally occurring stimulus produces an unlearned reflex response

  During conditioning

  • A neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus to produce the unlearned response

  After conditioning

  • The previously neutral stimulus is now associated with the unconditioned stimulus, it produces a new learned response
• Evaluation

  • It is scientific because it studies objectively observable and measurable stimulus - response mechanisms
  • Use of animal subjects may not be as accurate as human behavior
  • Several practical applications e.g prisons
  • Studying on animals has been deemed unethical when applied to humans
• classical conditioning

  A) Unconditioned Stimulus

  B) Unconditioned response

  C) Neutral stimulus

  D) No conditioned response

  E) Unconditioned response

  F) Conditioned stimulus

  G) Conditioned response

  
• Classical conditioning is learning through association and first demonstrated by pavlov