Classical conditioning

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Doritos “When Pigs Fly” commercial features a man telling a boy that he will only share his Doritos when pigs fly, so the boy builds a contraption to make the pig fly. After the man sees the pig flying, he shares his bag of Doritos with the boy. Doritos is the neutral stimulus because it becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and has the ability to elicit a similar response. Food is the unconditioned stimulus because it produces a response without prior learning. The production of a…

Emotional Intelligence is a driving force that has become extremely relevant over the last twenty years. The concept was coined as early as 1966 and tested later on the 1990’s when researchers developed ways to test this idea. Emotional intelligence or, “EI”, is the awareness of our feelings that drives humans and animals to act in a certain manner, essentially controlling what they do and how they react to certain situations. Not only has the concept overtaken peoples’ personal lives but has…

Pure-bred Sprague Dawley rats (brown laboratory rats) are to be used in this experiment. These rats are preferred due to known calmness and ease of handling. To reduce variability, rats of the same weight, age, and gender will be chosen. Thirty-seven ADHD rats and thirty-seven non-ADHD rats will be chosen. This provides a sample size large enough to produce statistically significant values. Because there is no physical biological marker for rats with ADHD, behavioral symptoms must be…

On an ancient ship in the middle of frozen ocean, Petrel a 12-year-old girl with no tribe, lives in the ship's darkests corners trusting no one besides two rats. Life was boring and had no meaning until a boy, a frozen boy, was found on a Iceberg and brought onto the Oyster (boat). In the book Icebreaker, Lian Tanner, focuses on revealing actions, inner thinking and dialogue to provide background information about the characters in order to understand the story with a deeper meaning. One set…

In addition, aversion therapy also is one of the techniques that based on the behaviorist principle of classical conditioning. If the clients want to change their unwanted behaviors, they can change by using this therapy. It is determined to decrease the frequency of the undesirable behaviors, for example, smoking or over eating, alcoholism, gambling and so on, by teaching the client to match a discomfort stimulus that achieves an undesirable response. There are two types of aversion therapy.…

To initiate the topic that will be discussed in this experiment, I would like to let the reader know that this research was for a scientific purpose, and all altered behaviors did not impose any harm or risk to the dog’s life. This experiment will give a broad overview of the problems with dog’s urinating on the carpet. Recently, I came home from an outing, and found a nasty yellow stain on the carpet by the window in the living room. Needless to say on this specific day, the dog was outside…

Have you ever heard of the saying: “You cannot teach an old dog new tricks?” Well, that saying is not true. Any dog, old or young, can learn a new trick if you have the time and are dedicated. Training your dog is an effective method to prevent, or change, unwanted behaviors. My experience on a training dogs is from my dog Teddy. I taught him to be housebroken, obedient, and even a few tricks. Potty training your dog you need to be consistent; consistency is key in potty training your dog or…

Development of learning theories from behaviourism to humanism. Behaviorism and humanism are critical schools in the field of psychology, accordingly, knowing the distinction amongst behaviorism and humanism is key for anybody intrested in psychology. Psychology is the experimental investigation of the human mental procedures and conduct, has various methodologies that are likewise considered as school of psychology . Every methodology exhibits an interesting method for comprehension the human…

Thinking Critically – Question 1: Max is doing a study on his high school football team. The way he is collecting his data is he attends every football game and observes the football players. What type of research method is Max doing. Answer 1: Naturalistic Observation- a research tool in which a subject is observed in its natural habitat without any manipulation by the observer. Question 2: Aaron is an all-state football player. On the game Friday he hurt is arm. The trainer didn’t think it…