Part 1: Classical Conditioning In scary movies, the absence of sound usually sig
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Part 1: Classical Conditioning In scary movies, the absence of sound usually signals a shocking act is about to occur. Before a scary act, the usual sounds of the movie, dialogue, music or other noise stops. A woman watching a scary movie, hears the silence and then becomes scared because of the shocking act that follows. Now when the woman watches another scary movie and the sound stops, she becomes scared. 1. Define the terms unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response 2. Identify the unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response in the above example. 3. Define the terms conditioned stimulus and conditioned response. 4. Identify the conditioned stimulus and conditioned response in the above example. conditioned response, make sure to indicate whether the response is automatic or learned.Explanation / Answer
Classical Conditioning is a type of associative learning. A stimulus is associated with a response. There are four major elements of classical conditioning.
An Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS), is a stimulus which produces a response without any kind of prior learning. An Unconditioned Response (USR), is an automatic response which is unlearned and is elicited on presentation of unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS) in classical conditioning is previously a neutral stimulus that eventually elicits the Conditioned Response(CR) after being paired with the Unconditioned Stimulus (US).
The UCS in the above example is the absence of sound. Fear is the UCR as it is an automatic response to the UCS.
Conditioned stimulus is the when the absence of the sound is associated with the scary act which is to occur. The conditioned response is the learnt fear after associating the absence of sound with a scary act which is to follow.