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Classical Conditioning

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Classical conditioning is “A type of associative learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response when it is associated with a stimulus that already produces that response” (Michael Gazzaniga, 2016). This essay will discuss how classical conditioning can be used in different situations to treat problem behaviours in humans. Having a fear of noise is a rare condition and can be difficult to control to maintain a normal lifestyle. The Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry tackles a twenty-one-year-old college student, Bill, who had an irrational fear of loud noises and balloons which had impacted on his relationship with his girlfriend (Houlihan, 1993). To treat Bill’s phobia of balloons it was decided to use
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Pavlov’s most famous experiment is usually known simply as “Pavlov’s Dog” was an experiment to see whether a conditioned reflex could take place if a neutral stimulus, such as playing a tone, was associated with a natural, unconditioned reflex, such as eating. He hypothesized that after repeating the process a number of times, the dog will associate the tone with food and begin to salivate at the sound of the tone, even without the presence of food. The dog in question would be placed in a room free from sensory input, and was strapped in a harness to prevent movement. Saliva levels were measured by a tube fitted in its mouth, which was surgically implemented through a vivisection. The dog was presented with a meat powder, which as expected

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Pavlov’s dog experiment is a base for the establishment of classical conditioning theory and its concepts. In classical conditioning, generalization is defined as the process in which a stimulus similar to the original CS produces similar behavior identical

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Classical conditioning focuses on using a conditioned response to change behavioural reaction. I will start of by discussing the theory of behaviourism by elaborating more on the theory and how it came about, with evidence on how Watson applied Ivan Pavlov’s theory under his. It will be followed up by the experiment performed on a baby boy called little Albert and then I will finally state the ethical views about classical conditioning on humans. John. B, Watson led the development of behaviourism as a distinctive approach to psychology.

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According to Rathus (2015) classical conditioning is basically learning to identify occurrences or events with other events (p. 125). My aversion with seafood and classical conditioning is associated with the smell of seafood. When the aroma of seafood is around, I will immediately breathe out of my mouth, or flee to another space. Chapter Six

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The basic process of classic conditioning happens in three stages; first there must be a conditioned stimulus, the stimulus will then cause a conditioned response. Then when an unconditioned stimulus is added in the learning process, the same response still occurs. The example we will be using here is throwing a ball to someone. Stage 1 (before learning): When the ball is thrown (unconditioned stimulus), it causes a natural reflex response (unconditioned response) to put up your hands to catch it.

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Behavioral therapies have been used to help modify a myriad of social conditions at a very successful rate. Aversion therapy as portrayed in A Clockwork Orange is used to encourage an individual to relinquish undesirable habits by causing them to associate the habit to an unpleasant side effect. In Alex’s case, his undesirable habits were violence, rape and murder. The treatment he received successfully corrected his behavior by associating these negative and violent habits with nausea, headaches, and stomach cramps. The excruciating pain induced by his conditioning reinforced the idea that the habit he was about to act upon was wrong and ultimately caused him to rethink his course of action.

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Nevertheless, Skinner points out that children learn nothing from the punishment. Instead, they may start to work out how to avoid it (Nolan & Raban, 2015). Another concept is classical conditioning (classical behaviorism) that emphasizes on the relation between stimuli and response. This concept embodies in a famous experiment, in which the food is presented to the dog when the bell rings, and the bell becomes a conditioned stimulus for the dog (Nolan & Raban, 2015). Likewise, if children receive toys in the condition that they behave well, then they will probably repeat this behavior to get the toys.

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It is necessary to consider all factors when diagnosing an individual, as a behavioral perspective we have observed that classical conditioning (associative learning) was presented. In the movie we can see that Pat associated his wedding song to the incident which causes him to break down emotionally. When Pat came home from work the day he walked in on his wife having an affair, his wedding song was playing. He believed that his wife was doing something nice for him and instead he was negatively impacted by the images he saw and the response he approached the scenario causing him to assault the history teacher. This is a form of classical conditioning because now every time he hears his wedding song he becomes frustrated where he throws things

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Introduction Learning enables you as an individual, to gain more knowledge about something which you have never learned about. Learning also has to do with past experiences which are influenced by behavioural changes (Weiten, 2016). There are different types of ways to learn; through, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning which will be discussed and analysed in the essay.   Behaviourism Behaviourism is considered one of the main subjects in psychology and the two main people who founded behaviourism were, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, also known as B.F Skinner and Ivan Pavlov who were famous for the work they did on classical and operant conditioning (Moderato & Presti, 2006). According to Moderato and Presti

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Paper 1: BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION Becky Templin Clovis Community College February 17, 2018 Introduction The theory behind behavior modification ethics has a reputation for its accomplishments and disappointments. In addition to this, there are many dangers in using physical punishment as behavior modification with the two primary modifiers of behavior being Classical conditioning and Operant conditioning. The outcome of using negative reinforcement has its share of benefits and downfalls in human behavior whereas; positive reinforcement seems to win over.

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My first topic will be over classical conditioning and learning by association. Classical conditioning is defined as learning that occurs when a stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. One example I can think of in my life is marching band, and the various stimuli we are exposed to. Before we start the, season, we have to go through band camp, where we begin the acquisition, which is the phase of learning where a response is established. An example of this will be when we are called to attention.

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The major key findings that were discovered in this study include the idea that it is possible that after being conditioned to react to a certain stimulus, the subject could possibly begin to generalize different objects that may cause the subject to react the same way towards the generalized stimuli as the subject did to the original stimulus. Another finding is that classical conditioning is something that could potentially have a long lasting effect on someone, especially if the subject formed a generalization to the original stimulus. The researchers felt that because of the lack of experimental evidence provided about the subject before this experiment prompted them to research it

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Link to reality: Both Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning and Pavlov’s theory of classical conditioning can be used every day in an ECCE setting. Today many school systems and childhood authorities follow Skinner’s and Pavlov’s theory by using the approach of positive reinforcement. This encourages good behaviour in the child making the behaviour more likely to be repeated again as they are rewarded and praised for their efforts in reading, writing and general learning. It is important that children’s efforts in a learning setting are rewarded as this will encourage the child to perform to the best of their ability.

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INTRODUCTION Have you ever thought on how people explain about behaviour? How do we know when learning process has occurred? Learning is permanent change that happened in the way of your behaviour acts, arises from experience one’s had gone through. This kind of learning and experience are beneficial for us to adapt with new environment or surrounding (Surbhi, 2018). The most simple form of learning is conditioning which is divided into two categories which are operant conditioning and classical conditioning.

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For a film that was made in 1971, the presentation of the effects of classical conditioning is quite accurate and allows the viewer to understand both the positive and negative results of using classical conditioning methods. However, the type of classical conditioning used in this film is inaccurate to real world conditioning procedures. The classical conditioning used in this movie is a fictional type of aversion therapy referred to as the “Ludovico technique”. This technique has the subject (Alex) strapped to a chair and injected with drugs while having his eyelids forced open while a number of disturbing images are flashed in front of him, all to the music of Beethoven's Ninth symphony. The technique used in 1971’s, A Clockwork Orange is a brainwashing technique and is completely fictional.

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