LEARNING
OPERANT CONDITIONING
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Classical Conditioning
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Operant Conditioning
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The dogs salivating for food is the unconditioned response in Pavlov’s experiment. A conditioned stimulus is a stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response. In the described experiment, the conditioned stimulus was the ringing of the bell, and the conditioned response was salivation.
Detailed explanation-2: -In classical conditioning, an unconditioned response is an unlearned response that occurs naturally in reaction to the unconditioned stimulus. 1 For example, if the smell of food is the unconditioned stimulus, the feeling of hunger in response to the smell of food is the unconditioned response.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pavlov (1902) started from the idea that there are some things that a dog does not need to learn. For example, dogs don’t learn to salivate whenever they see food. This reflex is ‘hard-wired’ into the dog. In behaviorist terms, food is an unconditioned stimulus and salivation is an unconditioned response.
Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of Unconditioned Stimuli The smell of a favorite food, which immediately makes you feel hungry. A feather tickling your nose, which causes you to sneeze. An onion’s smell as you cut it, which makes your eyes water.