Question

Choose a behavior that you would like to change (either your own behavior, someone you know or an animal in your life) and use the techniques of classical conditioning learning to change this behavior. This example can be real or hypothetical.

1. Why did you choose this timing and frequency of the pairing of the NS and US?
2. In your example, what is the NS, US, UR, CS, and CR?
3. What are the challenges to changing the target behavior?
4. How would you extinguish the behavior?
5. How would you prevent against generalization?
6. How would you check for spontaneous recovery?
7. Would this example be ethical if executed? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Classical conditioning occurs only whenNS becomes assosiated with phsycologically significant event, the neutal stimulus is presented the stimulus do not produce regular responseslike UR but when USis presented, NS becomes CS.

NS- HEARING BUZZUR CALL FROM A DENTIST

US - sitting in a dental chair and having small treatments done

CS- pain is felt in my teeth when i remmember about my last dental treatment.

CR- fear response when i see someone attending dental treatment

persons attitude , their willpower, lack of motivation, fear , lack of focus these can be the challenges.

Use of procedures of extinction to extinguish the behaviour, use of postive feedback ,or punishment.

social coping statergies, emotional coping stratergies physical coping statergies

the spontanious recovery is when an extinguished responce occurs after time has passed as viewed in terma of reniewal effect its based on 3 models - ABA RENEWAL, ABC RENEWAL, AAB RENEWAL.

YES because it is based on informed consent , voluntary participation, causes no harm