Examples Of Classical Conditioning

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1. Ever since I can remember, I’ve had a snack as soon as I come home from school. Even if I’ve eaten my lunch an hour before I came home, as soon as I step foot in my house I would become immediately hungry. This shows classical conditioning because when I first starting going to school and before I did my mouth never watered whenever I got home in the afternoon (neutral stimulus). Stepping into my house and smelling the familiar scent of my house and feeling the warmth (unconditional stimulus) triggers my hunger (unconditional response). Now whenever I step foot in my house after school (the new conditioned stimulus) it makes my mouth water and me hungry (conditioned response). My example of classical conditioning was created by Ivan Pavlov on the idea that stimuli that previously didn’t cause a response elects a response after being associated with a meaning. 2. One time at my tennis lessons I began to feel a pain in my wrists. My first thought was to brush it off because if I told my coach, she would make me sit out and rest/ice my wrists, and I didn’t want to stop playing because I was having fun. However, I thought the pain might lead to something serious so I told my coach and, like I thought, she made sit out for a …show more content…

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