Personal Example Of Classical Conditioning

My personal example of classical conditioning took place on a warm sunny summer day floating in a very relaxing pool. My boyfriend and I were floating around enjoying our summer break drinking Tequila out of oversized Yeti cups; mine was pink. It was all bubbles and butterflies at first, but when I got out of the pool and began to walk I soon discovered my cerebellum had been impaired. Minutes later I puked and passed out. The tequila was an unconditioned stimulus (UCS). After this incident took place every time I hear,think, or smell tequila I kid you not I gag and cring, so that was the unconditioned response (UCR). My pink Yeti cup is the neutral stimulus (NS). When I see any form of pink cups or yeti cups I think of this occurrence. Now that pink cups remind me of tequila it's now a conditioned stimulus (CS). I know have learned to never drink that much tequila again which is a conditioned response (CR). For future references, don't drink anomalous amounts of tequila.

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When I first got employed I was very alert to the new environment I was in. I observed the other and employees and how they did everything. This one employee was not very concerned on what time she arrived, or maybe it was just an accident, either way upon her arrival my manager saw her clock in time and was not very happy. He fired her on spot because of this. Ever since then I took into account what happened and learned to never do that because I knew what would happen to me if I did. I remembered distinctly because it frightened me. I examined my coworkers that arrived on time and their good work ethics and imitated that. I did this because I had the desire to make money. The amount of money I brought home every night to take care of my fur child (Nala my cat) motivated me to be to work on time. Now I am well versed in all forms of conditioning, as long as i'm not drinking