Classical Conditioning and Collier
Study Questions: “Anxiety” (pp. 94-98)
Your answers to these questions are not graded based on grammatical accuracy, and longer does not always = better. Just answer the questions thoughtfully. Some can be answered in just a sentence, and others take a few sentences.
YOUR NAME: Lim, Sung Jun
1. What is Collier's thesis? Based on your own experiences, do you think Collier's thesis is valid? Explain.
A: Collier’s thesis is that the idea of spending two months on the fabled Argentine pamas was exciting. I agree with him. As taking on anxiety-producing challenges, we can develop our abilities to overcome hardship. For example, I had lived for 20 years in Korea. When I decided to go study abroad in America, I felt scary and anxiety because I was not good at speaking in English and unfamiliar with American custom and culture. However I accepted the challenge that I get used to be new environment. Although I had many hardships in America, I overcame it and I can obtain lot of things I have never experienced. I think this challenge is valuable experience and lesson in my life.
2. What is the process known to psychologists as "extinction"?
A: Extinction can occur if the trained behavior is no longer reinforced or if the type of reinforcement used is no longer rewarding. In classical conditioning, when a conditioned stimulus is presented alone without an unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response will eventually cease. For example, in Pavlov's classic research, a dog was conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell. When the bell was presented repeatedly without the presentation of food, the salivation response eventually became extinct.
3. What causes Collier to come up with his basic rule for himself "Do what makes you anxious; don't do what makes you depressed"? How does he develop the two corollaries to his basic rule? How do the basic rule and the two corollaries prepare you for his thesis?
A: He spent summer vacation working on a ranch
Your answers to these questions are not graded based on grammatical accuracy, and longer does not always = better. Just answer the questions thoughtfully. Some can be answered in just a sentence, and others take a few sentences.
YOUR NAME: Lim, Sung Jun
1. What is Collier's thesis? Based on your own experiences, do you think Collier's thesis is valid? Explain.
A: Collier’s thesis is that the idea of spending two months on the fabled Argentine pamas was exciting. I agree with him. As taking on anxiety-producing challenges, we can develop our abilities to overcome hardship. For example, I had lived for 20 years in Korea. When I decided to go study abroad in America, I felt scary and anxiety because I was not good at speaking in English and unfamiliar with American custom and culture. However I accepted the challenge that I get used to be new environment. Although I had many hardships in America, I overcame it and I can obtain lot of things I have never experienced. I think this challenge is valuable experience and lesson in my life.
2. What is the process known to psychologists as "extinction"?
A: Extinction can occur if the trained behavior is no longer reinforced or if the type of reinforcement used is no longer rewarding. In classical conditioning, when a conditioned stimulus is presented alone without an unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response will eventually cease. For example, in Pavlov's classic research, a dog was conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell. When the bell was presented repeatedly without the presentation of food, the salivation response eventually became extinct.
3. What causes Collier to come up with his basic rule for himself "Do what makes you anxious; don't do what makes you depressed"? How does he develop the two corollaries to his basic rule? How do the basic rule and the two corollaries prepare you for his thesis?
A: He spent summer vacation working on a ranch