Classical Conditioning Experiment Hypothesis: If the spoon taps the glass of water after several trials of chiming and switching off the light‚ then the participant’s pupils should dilate to the chime of the glass without turning off the light. Procedure: First‚ I sat on the bathroom counter with my sister and had a spoon and a glass of water. The light switch was nearby and the room was dimly lit. Then‚ I turned off the light to see how much her eyes would dilate under normal conditions. After
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Classical Conditioning: learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus (NS) becomes paired (associated) with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) to elicit a conditioned response(CR) Pavlov’s Original Experiment Neutral Stimulus (NS): before conditioning doesn’t naturally elicit response of interest . Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS): elicits UCR without previous conditioning Unconditioned Response (UCR): unlearned reaction to UCS occurring without prior conditioning Conditioned Stimulus (CS): previously
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In a third article by Burdick and James (1970) also investigated classical conditioning in rats. The purpose of the experiment was to condition rats to suppress certain hunger behaviors such as water licking. Burdick and James paired the neutral stimulus of white light with shock in a “test chamber” to see if rats would develop an association between the two stimuli. Naturally‚ shock induces a fear-like freezing behavior‚ and after being conditioned the rats displayed the same behavior but only
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An example of classical conditioning is when my puppy hears the sound of his treat bag. He knows that he has to go out outside and do his business before he gets a treat. This is how I am training him. He can be in the other room and as soon as he hears me grab and shake the bag‚ he comes running to the door. He only gets a treat when he finishes his business outside. The stimulus is when I shake the treat bag he knows in order to get a treat he has to go outside and do his business and the response
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Weight Training and Conditioning Final Project About the Individual The individual that I chose is a fictional 21 year old male interested in general strength training as well as overall fitness. The program focuses primarily on compound lifts to help this individual achieve his goals. Over the 16 week period‚ they will experience all of the parts of the basic periodization model and end with a maintenance plan to maintain strength. About the Program This training program is designed
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form of learning. It is observing the behavior of others‚ assuming the same positions and trying to duplicate the same results. Being able to see someone else perform a task gives more confidence that you’ll be able to perform it yourself. Operant conditioning starts off with a neutral behavior and then is either positively reinforced or negatively reinforced. A positive reinforcer is any type of reward system and a negative reinforcer would be a type of punishment. If the behavior is positively reinforced
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A six-month trial study utilizing female civilian participants for physical strength conditioning progressed from 24 percent to 78 percent of the study group physically qualifying for ‘very heavy’ army jobs that females were currently excluded from. (Sherrow p52). If in just six months‚ such progress could be made with determined civilians‚ one could at least expect the same amount of dedication from individuals whose sworn duty it is to defend their nation. Even if the initial implementation of
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Most of the time‚ people are afraid of spiders because they’ve been trained to fear them by their parents and friends. Psychologists Bandera and Rosenthal felt fear reactions are acquired by modeling (Comer‚ p. 112). Classical conditioning and genetics also come into play (Comer‚ p. 111-113). I think it is wise to fear spiders; some spiders can inflict a nasty bite as with the brown recluse spider. I know there are ways to overcome your fears such as reconditioning and exposure therapy‚ but I have
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workplace‚ like the boss punish the worker. It is specific for families‚ such as parents punish their own children. Introduced by B.F.Skinner‚ punishment has a more restrictive and technical definition. It is referred to as response-stimulus conditioning. In psychology‚ punishment is the reduction of a behavior via application of an adverse stimulus ("positive punishment") or removal of a pleasant stimulus ("negative punishment"). In our short sketch‚ we have tow parts to introduce each positive
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the pre-cursing studies‚ can not be directly defined. Instead Learning has to be inferred from the change of behavior observed in the subject. A more or less permanent change implies the subject has "Learned" the desired response. Operant Conditioning is conditioning a specific subject to perform an Operant response to receive a reinforcer (such as food). An apparatus used to achieve this would be the "Skinner Box" or the "Davis universal feeder" (along with key light and response key) that was used
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