Essays on Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are different learning methods. What exactly is conditioning? Conditioning is the acquisition of specific patterns of behavior in the presence of well-defined stimuli. Both classical and operant conditioning are basic forms of learning. Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which an organism learns to transfer a natural response…

Aggression is a term used to denote aggressiveness towards other entity or being. It is classified into more specific types of aggressiveness. The different types of aggression are the following: a.) Fear induced – wherein fear is a starting point towards aggression to avoid and prevent damage to one self. b.) Predatory induced – A…

            Stanley Kubrick’s film, A Clockwork Orange, remains as controversial today as it was when it was first released over 35 years ago. While it is true that the shocking violence present within the film is unnerving, the psychological implications present in the film are as equally unnerving.             If there was anything that all…

            Human growth and development entails a process of learning. It is widely believed that the human personality emerges from influences of our experiences with respect to interactions with the environment, parents, peers, and other people.(Gallistel & Gibbon, 2002) Being equipped with the capacity for rational thought, human beings are able to process what would…

Ivan Pavlov and Classical Conditioning “Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. ” Said Ivan Pavlov, a Russian psychologist whose discoveries paved the way for an objective science of behavior. For his original work in this field of research, Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in…

Have you ever ran through a red light? Probably not because when you are learning to drive you are aware that green means go and red means stop. You probably are also aware that when you see yellow you should slow down. These are all elicit reactions to a color that is familiar to you…

Ivan Pavlov Classical conditioning is a method used in behavioral studies. It is known as classical because it is the first study of laws of learning/conditioning, It is a learned reaction that you do when evoked by a stimulus. Ivan Pavlov was the scientist who discovered classical conditioning. Ivan Pavlov was born in Russia. He…

Unconditioned Stimulus? unconditioned stimulus (US) is one that unconditionally, naturally, and automatically triggers a response. For example, when you smell one of your favorite foods, you may immediately feel very hungry. In this example, the smell of the food is the unconditioned stimulus. Some more examples of the unconditioned stimulus include: * A feather tickling…

Watson and Rosalie Rayner conducted important studies on psychology in 1920, which turned out to be one of the influential studies. “Conditioned Emotional Reactions” was a paper, which was based on experiments conducted by J.B. Watson with his assistant, Rosalie Rayner. This paper was also known as the “Little Albert” study.  The reason this study was…

We can see learning taking place all the time, but there is no simple explanation of the process. Psychologists have examined four types of learning; one of these is classical conditioning or response learning. Classical conditioning is the easiest kind of learning. Classical conditioning is based on experiments that took place in the 1900’s by…