Classical conditioning

Specific Phobia Specific phobia is defined as the occurrence of intense and abnormal fear when exposed to a specific object, person or situation. To be diagnosed with specific phobia, the fear must cause last over 6 months and cause severe and debilitating anxiety or distress. There are five categories that all specific phobias fall into: animals (such as sharks), situations (such as planes), blood, injections and injury (such as getting a needle), natural environment (such as storms) and other…

research on the physiology of digestion. He also wrote a book called “Conditioned Reflexes”. http://muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/pavlov.htm Another important theorist of behaviorism was B.F. Skinner. He is known as the father of operant conditioning. He was born in a small town of Pennsylvania in the year of 1904. He went to Hamilton College in New York with the intent of becoming a writer. He realized he did not have anything to offer as a writer so he became interested in psychology…

The movie ‘Dead Poets Society’ demonstrates a great deal of examples on social influence such as conformity within a group and obedience to authority. Milgram’s experiment can be followed throughout the movie. The school traditions dictate a high level of obedience with its rules such as dress code, repetitions after the teacher, and other events which take place on a daily basis. These types of obedience and conformity can lessen the courage to speak up for what one believes in and can prevent…

The psychological studies that John Watson and Rosalie Rayner conducted a classical condition study on a 9-month old baby that he called Albert B. the infant boy started in the experiment loving animals, and a white rat. Watson startled the rat with a loud sound of a hammer hitting the metal, Albert begins to develop a phobia a fear of white rats as well as most animals and furry objects. Many people have logical fears of animals, even myself is scared of every little creature that crawls, walk…

This case study is about a man who goes by the name of Captain Hook and he is dealing with the loss of his hand in a sword incident, and having to accept that there was no chance of it being reattached because it had been fed to an animal. This man has a long ongoing feud with a young man by the name of Peter Pan that lives in the same area, a place called “Neverland”. These two men have had constant altercations ongoing for many many years, dating back a long time. This young man ultimately…

people the world is complete, but to others, it seems they don’t have individuality and they think that things are unnatural. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the government controls the peace and citizens with soma, a caste system and classical conditioning for many reasons. The…

we kill animal’s regularly for a wide range of reasons. Without a doubt experimenting an animals can't be seen as thoroughly off base? So what has animal examination given us, first we have classical and operant conditioning that were found while testing animals. Pavlov had discovered classical conditioning (1927), when working with dogs he discovered they salivated when a colleague went into a room with sustenance, then presented a ringer at whatever point they were being nourished, sooner or…

Newspaper writers develop content for the newspaper that a large amount of people want to read, and since there are a lot of parents in the world, new information about child development can always be valued by a parent. These articles can be lacking theoretical models in their content, which can be very important to support their theories. Regardless of the content of the developmental article, a theoretical model can explain the phenomenon that is being discussed. In the article by Pelly…

Creative Arts Therapy, specifically psychodrama or drama therapy has the potential to revolutionize care of patients suffering from emotional trauma including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drama therapy is a group activity developed by the psychiatrist Jacob Moreno who used “enactments of real-life situations to reveal the attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and values that underlie social interactions, thus deepening our understanding of them” (Leveton). Given the universality, and ease of…

able to consent that a parent consent for them. Little Albert could not consent and it is speculated that his mother had no idea that the experiments were taking place, so she could not consent either. The fact that Watson did not try to undo the conditioning also sparks ethical debate. He did not ensure the child’s wellbeing after the experiments which is arguably the most important code to abide by. Some of the ethical principles were founded because of Watson and Jones’s experiments, though…