However, every time the dog saw the experimenter, the dog had already started to salivate before it came close to eating the food; this was unusual. It was thought that salivation was a reflex and only happened when the food touched the tongue. Pavlov thought about why this happened and developed his current theory, the theory of association. The dog associated the footsteps of Pavlov to receiving the food, causing the dog to salivate because the dog knew it would receive food. (Carolyn Aldworth et al, 2010 & McLeod, 2007) Since salivation was a natural response, he named this the unconditional response.
This was due to reflexes that originate from the cerebral cortex of the brain. This makes classical conditioning a taught behavior which moves on to being a reflex after time so that you do it without thought. With classic conditioning there are unconditioned responses, conditioned stimulus, and a conditioned response. With unconditioned responses this is something that happens naturally like getting hungry when you smell food. For conditioned stimulus this would be viewed as a neutral stimulus that after time has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus.
The primary caregiver in the second stage, during conditioning, is known as the unconditioned response which becomes associated with the food, still known as the unconditioned stimuli. Then the third stage takes place which is known after conditioning. This is where the primary caregiver is now the conditioned stimuli and the pleasure that the child receives is the conditioned response which is how the child forms attachment. There is also operant conditioning which takes place when the child is learning through reward. When the child is hungry it will cry which creates discomfort to the child itself.
What is used to train Sniffy is positive reinforcements. Reinforcements are pleasant consequences used to continue behavior. In the experiment, when Sniffy pressed the bar and/or lever, the operant chamber rewarded him with a food pellet. Because the food was a primary reinforcement for Sniffy, it increased his behavior of continuously pressing the bar overtime. The secondary reinforcer used in the experiment was the magazine sound that
Classical conditioning refers to the process of learning through association. This involves an animal or a human learning to associate something new with something that naturally causes a response eventually making the new thing cause the same response itself. A key example found within psychology for the process of classical conditioning would be that of Pavlov’s dog experiment. Pavlov was initially doing experiments on dogs and salivating and noticed that when the dogs heard his footsteps, they begin to salivate involuntarily. This is due to them learning to associate the sound of Pavlov’s footstep with food.
pleasure. On the other hand, operant conditioning involves secondary drives e.g. reinforcement of mother providing food-association, smiling and close contact with the reward of food. The learning theory attempts to explain attachment in terms of food and is known as a ‘cupboard love theory of attachment’. However other theories e.g.
However, the mother is there each time the baby is fed. Subsequently, Classical conditioning is learning through association. Firstly the food is the un-conditioned stimulus which the baby feels pleasure from so this is the un-conditioned response. Then, the mother is the neutral stimulus however, for the baby so after time the mother becomes a conditioned stimulus as the baby associates the mother with food and this is the conditioned response. The baby associates the mother with food.
Classical Conditioning Anthony Trolli PSY/390 October 10, 2011 Brian Newbury Classical Conditioning Theory of Classical conditioning: The theory of classical conditioning is a term that is often used to describe how one learns with the experiences they may have acquired through their experiences. In psychology it can be defined as a permanent change of knowledge or behavior. The one example that is best experiment with the dogs was how he trained the dogs to salivate when they heard the sound of the bell ringing, he first showed them some food which caused the salivation, after a while he would just ring the bell without bringing them food to just cause them to salivate from the sound of the bell ring. One way to define
Ellen Satter’s “How to Feed Children” Analysis There are multiple habits and strategies when feeding your child. The methods drastically change as the child gradually develops and matures. Satter lists steps that help direct an unaided or unsure parent toward the correct habits of eating behaviors at ages ranging from newborn to adolescent. Feeding a newborn can not only be rewarding but also challenging. Satter believes that the best method for newborns is “feeding her the way she wants to be.” One must pay close attention to her cues of crying or behavior.
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