Operant conditioning chamber

A Three Second Memory? There is a common belief that fish only have a three second memory and that they cannot be trained to compete tricks, and this may be caused by the short lifespan of some species of fish, making testing for long term memory difficult (Reebs, 2008, p.1). Moreover, many assume that goldfish do not have a memory since goldfish always seem like they are hungry, since they are always seen foraging for food. However, as a long time goldfish owner, I have witnessed my goldfish…

psychology could once again be added into the great hall of sciences. The two camps of behavioral learning theory became Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. The first of the two focused on behavioral responses to situations that were involuntary, though they should not have been so. The latter focused on voluntary behavioral responses to situations. Classical Conditioning…

differential fear conditioning technique with angry face or happy faces as the conditional stimuli. For half of the participants in each group, before extinction is used no more unconditioned stimuli would be presented and the shock electrode was removed. The participants did show resistance to extinction after training with angry face, but not after training with a happy look. The conditioned stimuli face expressed after the removal of the electrode and extinction, while eating the fear…

anamnesis the experiment performed by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner in 1920. Watson adduce that cerebral researches should be based alone on credible behaviors and due to this viewpoint, his analysis was accompanied with conditioning of fear (learned). He accustomed aloft conditioning via accepted procedures including affiliation of stimuli, and analysis accountable alleged by him for the purpose of which was an 11-month old child called Albert. Albert was an acutely close baby who hardly…

Part I: Applications of Classical Conditioning Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder The treatment of the dissociative identity disorder follows a consistent observance of psychological requirements. It is important to understand that therapists have the tendency to clearly understand the best practices regarding medication. Classical conditioning is one of the methods that can be used to ensure that dissociative identity disorder patients get their treatment. Dissociative…

Laws of Learning (p.200) • Law of Effect – (p.200) Acts that produce satisfaction in a given situation become associated with that situation; when the situation recurs, the act is likely to recur. A stimulus-response” reaction circumstance where a positive reaction will most likely reproduce the action which caused it. • Law of Exercise – (p.200) The more an act or response is used in a given situation, the more strongly the act becomes associated with that situation. A circumstance where…

The lady that composed this piece is actually the mother of the woman that was playing violin. I thought this was very cool and you could tell that this piece meant a lot to her. This piece is from the modern era as it was wrote in 2012. The piece itself was written to represent the landscape of Wallah Wallah, Washington. This was the place of a musical festival that she and her husband had founded. The landscape was supposed to be beautiful fields filled with golden grasses. The piece used…

Charles Ives is one of the famous American Modernist composers. He was born in 1874 and he composed many compositions until he died in 1954. He was born in Connecticut as a son of Army bandmaster. He began to compose at 12 and he became an Organist at 14. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, he is very well-known as his unique compositional styles. His compositional style combines American popular and church music tradition. The Church music traditions of his youth with European and…

In 1839, Breitkopf & Härtel published Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C major, Op. 17. Schumann conceived the piece in early 1836. The first iteration of Op. 17 was a one movement piece titled Ruines. Ruines was Schumann’s cathartic expression of the fatigue of separation from his love, Clara Wieck. After several alterations of the piece--in the effort to raise funds for a monument to Beethoven--Schumann expanded Ruines to three movements, mulled over a series of titles, and ultimately settled on…

3.3 Piano Figuration 3.3.1 Use of Percussive Figuration Prokofiev first used percussive figuration in Sarcasms Op. 17 and Toccata Op. 11 written in the same year. At the beginning of Sarcasms, the Tempestoso is depicted by the percussive introduction. The harsh percussive sound in the interval of the augmented fourth is not only reinforced by ff, but also projects an intense emotion. The dynamic contrast in the first four measures further heightens the intensity. Ex. 3.9 Sarcasms Op. 17 No. 1…