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A 5 page research paper that discusses classical conditioning, operant conditioning and cognitive social learning. The writer discusses these learning theories in relation to a personal experience taken from the writer's childhood. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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I saw the dog coming for me and froze with fear. It knocked me down and then bit down on my leg, shaking its head as if worrying a dog
toy. The bites themselves required stitches but actually were not that severe. What caused the most damage to my leg was the bruising that resulted from the dogs head motion.
The bruising turned by leg black from mid-thigh to mid-calf. I had to do exercises for six month to keep my calf muscle from being permanently damaged. I am still
afraid of large dogs. Small dogs do not bother me, but large dogs elicit a conditioned fear response. How this reaction could have occurred due to classical conditioning: Classical
conditioning is the "mechanism of learning that results when...natural stimuli are paired or associated with other (conditioned) stimuli so that the latter leads to the same...respondent behavior (Mohr and
Pumariega, 2004, p. 113). The famous experiment performed by the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov, in which he trained a dog to salivate at the sound of bell, illustrates the principles
involved. Pavlov rang a bell whenever he fed the dogs and this conditioned them to expect food when they heard the bell. In Pavlovs experiment, the unconditioned stimulus was the
bell and the unconditioned response was the dogs salivation when it was fed. After the conditioning, the sound of a bell, which had previously not elicited a response, became the
conditioning stimulus and the conditioning response, salivation, which was previously given in response to food was elicited by the sound of the bell because of the association, the learning experience
of the dog. In my case, the unconditioned stimulus was a large dog, as previously, I had not been afraid of large dogs. The unconditioned response was fear, which
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