Classical Conditioning Theory

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Learning (behavioural) This can be considered as the nature part of the environment where behaviour can be learnt and also bring about a different behaviour within the environment. Classical Conditioning is where persons learn to associate two stimuli as they occur together, the response can be trigerred by one stimulus that can be transferred to another. Due to this fact, Ivan Pavlov did an experiment on the behaviourism of animals that was considered as Classical Conditioning of these behaviours. While, John Watson did a similar experiment but this was done on humans. Theorists: Ivan Pavlov Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian Psychologist, who, was born on September 14th 1849, in Ryazan, Russia. Pavlov, who, was seen as the Department…show more content…
• Persons who were arranged to take care of Pavlov’s dogs had to wear white lab coats. As a result of this , Pavlov realized that his dogs began to drool whenever they saw a white coat even though there isn't any food insight.(Ivan Pavlov 1849-1936) • Due to the salivation of the dogs ,it was stated that the dogs were demonstrating classical conditioning , in which, the neutral stimulus (bell) couldn’t produce a response on its own with the means of salivation.(Ivan Pavlov 1849-1936) • Also non-neutral/ un-conditioning stimulus – (the food) – this would normally produce an unconditional response (salivation). But by presenting the neutral stimulus and the unconditional stimulus together, this will help the dog to know how to learn how to associate the two. (Ivan Pavlov, 1849-1936) • Eventually, the neutral stimulus by itself will produce a similar response as the unconditioned stimulus, for example, dogs drooling when they heard the bell. This is seen as conditioned response, while, unconditioned response are considered to be completely neutral and conditioned response as a means of something we learn or reinforce. (Ivan Pavlov,…show more content…
Watson (1930),“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years." John Watson was interested in experimenting the effects of Classical Conditioning to the response of fear in humans and how it correlates with Little Albert experiment. • This was demonstrated by little Albert Experiment, where, an American Psychologist John Watson (the father of behaviourism) wanted to prove that Pavlov’s demonstrating conditions on dogs can also be used on Humans, so he took a nine – month – old – boy named Albert and showed him several items, including a white rat and it was proven that little Albert were not afraid of any of these items. (John
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