Question

2. Chandler and his current roommate, Alex, were both transferred to a new city and needed to find a new apartment. They carefully considered every apartment within their price range and finally, rented one that met all of their criteria. Complete A and B, below, with regard to their experience. For each of the concepts, define the term and then, apply that term/concept to the specific situation.

A. For each concept below, define it, and then explain how the concept might relate to their decision to buy a home:

• one of the three steps to problem-solving we learned about (choose a specific one!)
• classical conditioning
• confirmation bias
• divergent thinking

B. For each concept, below, define it and provide an example that explains how the concept could relate to life in their new home and new neighborhood.

• extrinsic motivation
• proactive interference
• observational learning.

Answer 1

Based on the above case scenario it has bee observed that both Chandler and his current roommate, Alex, were transferred to a new city and needed to find a new apartment. It has been observed that they carefully considered every apartment within their price range and finally, rented one that met all of their criteria.

A.

In order to buy a home classical conditioning can be helpful because in this process there are three steps namely before conditioning, after conditioning, and during conditioning. It is a phenomenon in which two stimuli are present and are repeatedly paired with each other. Moreover, it has been observed that at first, the first stimuli might elicit the second stimuli, and eventually, it elicits the first stimuli. It is best option to take decisions to behave in this condition people learn to make predictions about any event.

B.

• The extrinsic motivation concept is linked with life in their new home and new neighborhood because it was based on reward-driven behavior. It is categorized as operant conditioning and praising someone or rewarding something to the neighbors can help them to settle easily in the new environment.
• Proactive interference is another phenomenon that is based on an interference effect linked with the previous leaned processes; such as remembering the new address of your friend after remembering the old address. In order to settle in new areas and new neighbors, it might become difficult for them because learning new things is not that easy without forgetting the old ones.
• Observational learning is another process that is related to the new life and new neighbors as it will help them to observe their behavior and adopt a new lifestyle. It is categorized as a form of social learning and it was linen with society on a large scale.