Analysis Of Keeping Up With The Kardashians

Being that reality television plagues society and that I despise most of these shows, I hope to teach my friend not to like “Keeping up with the Kardashians”. I hope to accomplish this task through a type of conditioning, or learning, that I can apply to the situation in order to discourage the mental processes involved in watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians”. Ideally, through Ivan Paplov’s described conditioning methods, I can save my friend from the mistake of enjoying the television show. Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, described a certain form of conditioning called Classical Conditioning. Classical Conditioning deals with individual’s instinctive responses to specific situations and stimulants. This entire method of causing an individual to learn certain responses and ways revolves completely around behaviors that people don’t actually control. It deals with behaviors that people

In this example, every time that my friend has an urge to watch “Keeping up with the Kardashians” I am going to play the soundtrack of “It’s a Small World”. This combination should eventually condition my friend to be annoyed every time they think of “Keeping up with the Kardashians” rather than get excited to actually watch it. This process has then created a conditioned stimulus and a conditioned response. The once neutral stimulus becomes the conditioned stimulus. It triggers a conditioned reaction from an individual that is consistent and desired by the party that created it. The conditioned response is whatever the response created by the conditioned stimulus causes. This was the original goal of whoever began the classical conditioning, and causes the subject to act in a programmed way. In this example, the conditioned response is that my friend will no longer want to watch “Keeping up with the Kardashians” whenever they think about