Sunday, November 17, 2013

Classical Conditioning

When we learned about classical conditioning, I understood how it happened.. but I found it really difficult to think of my own examples, and when we thought of examples in class I thought that they couldn't really work in real life. To review..
Classical Conditioning is when we learn to associate 2 stimuli and to anticipate an event.
Pavlov found classical conditioning through temporal association - an associating formed by time.
When he performed an unconditioned stimulus (one that creates an automatic, autonomic, or reflexive response in an organism. It's unlearned), he would get an unconditioned response (an unlearned response that can be elicited from an organism). When simply performing a conditioned stimulus (one that can be learned), there was no response. However, when paired with an unconditioned stimulus, there would be a conditioned response (a learned response association).
I found a very cool video that demonstrates the concepts of classical conditioning:
In this video, the unconditioned stimulus is when he shoots him with the gun. The unconditioned response is his jumping out of the way or grabbing his arm in pain. The conditioned stimulus is the "that was easy" noise, and the conditioned response is his jumping out of the way to avoid the pain.

It's really cool to see a real life example of how this works.

1 comment:

  1. This was too good! I feel bad for his roommate, but wow! It's nice to see Pavlov's theory in action! Can we try this on someone?
    "Only Bryan was harmed in the making of this film"... too good.
    Can we, though? We have to think of something creative!

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