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.
Food at this phase is unconditioned stimulus and salivates of the dog in unconditioned response while the bell has no any effect to it. The dog stated to connect food with bell when the bell is followed by the presence of food. This was repeated frequently to make the dog to adopt the bell as the sign of getting food. Later, the dog started salivating at the bell before food presented. At this stage, the bell becomes conditioned stimulus which causes conditioned response to dog’s salivation.
The dog would still respond as the worker was coming with the meat. This research was listed as classical conditioning. Natural stimulus is when an object would trigger a certain reaction. Unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response which is the reaction is when reacting is learned. The natural stimulus is a conditioned stimulus where an individual has developed a conditioned response (Olson & Hergenhahn).
Since the reader knows Lennie likes to pet soft things, but he has a record of killing them when he does, it is obvious her death is imminent. The use of dogs as symbols is regular in the book. In the first place, Lennie’s puppy is one of the several symbols that represent the
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which he would gradually associate with the act of elimination. Eventually, every time he hears this word, your puppy would know that it is time for him to answer the call of nature. Once he is completely finished, you can reward him with some playtime or a longer walk outside. Rewarding your puppy for successfully eliminating outdoors is a part of the housetraining routine. However, remember that you only praise or give him a treat immediately after he has finished eliminating.
Pavlov realised the dog was salvating because it had learned to associate the assistant with food. Food led to the response of salvation, he called this an unconditional response (not learned) . Pavlov then began to ring a bell as presenting the food. The dog then began to salvate when only the bell was rung this is called an unconditional stimulus. As food atomatically leads to the response of salivation he called this conditioned response.
The behaviourist approach puts forward two explanations of how we learn. The first is called classical conditioning which means learning through reinforcement. Pavlov discovered this when he taught dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell by showing the dogs food and ringing a bell at the same time until the bell became a conditioned stimulus. The second explanation of how we learn is called operant conditioning which means learning through rewards and punishments. Our behaviour is shaped through the consequences of our behaviour.
The conditioned response, or the CR, is the response that occurs whenever the unconditioned stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus (Spielman, 2014). The example of Ivan Pavlov’s study with dog’s can show how this occurs; when food is presented with a bell, the dogs will salivate. Eventually the dogs will salivate when they hear the bell alone. The bell is the neutral stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus is the food, and the conditioned response is the salivating (Spielman, 2014). Extinction occurs when a decrease in the CR occurs because the unconditioned stimulus is not continually presented with the conditioned stimulus (Spielman, 2014).
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