Conditioning
Conditioning
You know that moment when you are just hanging out in the shower, doing your thing, and you hear the toilet flush? My immediate reaction is to jump out of the water as fast as humanly possible. I have been conditioned by the sound of the flushing toilet to get out of the water because it is fixing to get scalding hot. This is called Classical Conditioning. "Classical conditioning is the learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an innately meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response." (King, 2010) This can happen in many different ways but one example would be Pavlov's study. Ivan Pavlov explored the responses he got from a dog when he offered it meat powder. Pavlov discovered that the dog would not only salivate when feed the meat powder but also at the sight of its feeder, the sound of the door opening and closing, and at the sight of the food bowl. Pavlov realized that the dog was conditioned by these events which signaled that food was coming, which in turn triggered the saliva. Another type of conditioning is Operant conditioning. "Operant conditioning is a form of associative learning in which the consequences of a behavior changes the probability of the behaviors occurrence." (King 2010) A perfect example of this type of conditioning would be infants. A baby quickly learns that if it's hungry and cry out, then somebody will give it formula. Children in general learn this way. They establish boundaries and behaviors by learning what behaviors get a negative response and which behaviors get a positive one. If the behavior gets a negative response, the child knows not to repeat that behavior, but if it gets a positive response, the child will repeat the behavior. Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are both very helpful to know about and can help you change
You know that moment when you are just hanging out in the shower, doing your thing, and you hear the toilet flush? My immediate reaction is to jump out of the water as fast as humanly possible. I have been conditioned by the sound of the flushing toilet to get out of the water because it is fixing to get scalding hot. This is called Classical Conditioning. "Classical conditioning is the learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an innately meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response." (King, 2010) This can happen in many different ways but one example would be Pavlov's study. Ivan Pavlov explored the responses he got from a dog when he offered it meat powder. Pavlov discovered that the dog would not only salivate when feed the meat powder but also at the sight of its feeder, the sound of the door opening and closing, and at the sight of the food bowl. Pavlov realized that the dog was conditioned by these events which signaled that food was coming, which in turn triggered the saliva. Another type of conditioning is Operant conditioning. "Operant conditioning is a form of associative learning in which the consequences of a behavior changes the probability of the behaviors occurrence." (King 2010) A perfect example of this type of conditioning would be infants. A baby quickly learns that if it's hungry and cry out, then somebody will give it formula. Children in general learn this way. They establish boundaries and behaviors by learning what behaviors get a negative response and which behaviors get a positive one. If the behavior gets a negative response, the child knows not to repeat that behavior, but if it gets a positive response, the child will repeat the behavior. Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are both very helpful to know about and can help you change