Show Me What You Know About Classical Conditioning
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Show Me What You Know About Classical Conditioning
For each of the following learning situations, indicate the UCS, UCR, CS, CR. Be specific enough that I understand what you are labeling.
1. When a mother strokes her infant’s skin, the stroking creates pleasure responses in the baby. After this goes on for many days, the baby begins to show pleasure responses simply at the sight of her mother (even before being touched).
2. Imagine you have a friend who keeps the temperature in her home so high that each occasion on which you visit her you find yourself perspiring. The last time you visited her, you noticed that you began to perspire and became uncomfortable as soon as you saw her house (even before you got inside).
3. Ms. Thrower decides to throw water on sleeping students to startle them awake. Before doing this, she calmly says, “banana”. Eventually, all Ms. Thrower has to do to wake up students is shout “banana” without throwing water on them.
4. Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the shower becomes very hot and causes the person to jump back. Over time, the person begins to jump back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes.
5. Now YOU invent a classical conditioning scenario. Label the UCS, UCR, CS, CR: