Classical Conditioning Module 4 Assignment

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Module Four Assignment
The classical condition that I’ve experienced would be taste aversion. My mom fixed her most famous pasta salad that I once found so delicious so believe me when I say that I ate a great amount every time she fixed it. We were at the beach and we grilled out, she fixed the pasta salad and I was so excited. I ate and ate and ate until I couldn’t anymore. The next day I felt queasy and let’s just say the pasta salad didn’t sit to well with me. Ever since that day which was two years ago I haven’t gone near that pasta salad and even the smell of it makes me nauseous. Did the pasta salad make me sick? Probably not but by me getting sick right after eating made me never want to go near it again.
There are 5 key elements of classical conditioning: 1. Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) which …show more content…

2. Unconditioned Response (UCR) which is A reflexive action produced naturally by the UCS (Nausea) 3. Neutral Stimulus which is a stimulus that does not initially elicit a response (The smell) 4. Conditioned Stimulus (CS) which Initially the neutral stimulus, does not normally produce a UCR. Through repeated association with the UCS, the CS produces a very similar response and finally 5. Conditioned Response (CR) which is the learned response to the CS (Me getting nausea with just the smell of the pasta salad). Before learning, the pasta is a uncontrolled stimulus which produced nausea and vomiting which is considered a UCR. The smell was neutral which elicit no response, during the transition the pasta smell became a controlled stimulus, the pasta was uncontrolled stimulus and the nausea becomes a UCR at the end the smell changed from a neutral position to a controlled stimulus that elicit nausea which now

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