Classical
Conditioning
Pavlov
and his co-workers investigated digestive process of dog. It was found that
when unconditioned stimulus (meat powder) was presented to the dog, it in
return provoked the conditioned response of salivating. When presented with a
neutral stimulus – the bell ring, there was no effect on its salivation. Later
Pavlov paired the neutral stimuli with unconditioned stimuli. Every time a bell
was rung before presenting food to the dog. Finally once a neutral stimulus
became a conditional stimulus and acquired all the affects which unconditioned
stimuli possessed. Ringing of the bell alone was enough to provoked salivation.
We
all are subjected for variety of classical conditioning in our everyday life. Though,
some of us may not realize it. Think about signal of ambulance. What would you
do when you hear fire alarm at your apartment? All these are examples of classical
conditioning. Also some classical conditionings are in use at our class rooms.
Ringing of bell to indicate the end of periods, and how students jump out of
their seats by receiving this stimulus is one of the best example I can think
of.
During the interval period when bell rings,students feel that they were hunger than before and they were hurry to go home at the same time there were effect on salivation. The same thing happens in our every day life,whenever phone rings we tend to see the phone screen to see whether who is calling to him/her. These are some other examples of classical conditioning that I came up after reading your article. Anyway you are really learning a lot.... Keep it up!
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