Senin, 04 Oktober 2010

Introduction to Classical Conditioning

Behaviorism is a school of thought in psychology that assumes that learning occurs through interactions with the environment. Two other cases of this theory is that the environment shapes behavior and making internal mental states such as thoughts, feelings and emotions in mind is useless to explain the behavior.

One of the best known aspects of behavioral theory of learning is classical conditioning. Discovered by the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs through associations between environmental stimuli and natural stimuli. To understand how classical conditioning, it is important to be familiar with the basic principles of the process.

The unconditioned stimulus

The unconditioned stimulus is one that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers a response. For example, when a smell of their favorite foods, you can instantly feel hungry. In this example, the smell of food is the unconditioned stimulus.

The unconditioned response

The unconditioned response is ignorant response that occurs naturally in response to the unconditioned stimulus. In our example, the sensation of hunger in response to the smell of food is the unconditioned response.

The conditioned stimulus

The conditioned stimulus is previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response. In our previous example, suppose that when smelled their favorite foods, also heard the sound of a whistle. As the whistle is not related to the smell of food, if the whistle was paired repeatedly with the smell, the sound over time would result in the conditioned response. In this case, the sound of the whistle is the conditioned stimulus.

The conditioned response

The conditioned response is the learned response to previously neutral stimulus. In our example, the conditioned response you feel hungry when they heard the sound of the whistle.
Classical conditioning in the real world

In reality, people do not respond just like Pavlov's dogs. There are, however, many real world applications for classical conditioning. For example, many dog trainers use classical conditioning techniques to help train their pets.

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