William Cope
Eric Thomas
Torsten Galle
Kathryn AshbyLearning, Knowledge and Human Development MOOC’s Updates
classic conditioning
Classic conditioning: is a learning process that try to build a link between an environment stimulus and a natural stimulus, making it happen that, finally, without the natural stimulus, the same response will occur when there is only the linked environment stimulus.
Researchers in a famous field study try to decrease the number of sheep killed by coyotes, so they injected carcasses with a poison that would make coyotes sick but not die. Finally, not only the number decreased, it also happened that the coyotes developed a strong aversion to sheep that they would even run away when a sheep in they eyesight.
Rikshit Vahishtha
While I do have confidence in great molding (learned conduct) and your case of the sheep and coyotes remain constant, I wonder if ladies who continue meeting lousy men on numerous occasions and continually getting their hearts broken is additionally considered as exemplary molding. Clearly these ladies have not gained from quite a while ago; maybe the torment of an awfulness wasn't large enough for them to stop the example. Another model would be a convict who escapes prison just to carry out another wrongdoing and gets back in prison.
Hello @Fei Xu,
While I do believe in classic conditioning (learned behavior) and your example of the sheep and coyotes hold true, I wonder if women who keep meeting lousy men time and time again and always getting their hearts broken is also considered as classic conditioning. Obviously these women have not learned from their past; perhaps the pain of a heartbreak wasn't big enough for them to stop the pattern. Another example would be a convict who gets out of jail only to commit another crime and gets back in jail.
Hello @Fei Xu ,
I believe the most important difference between operant conditioning from classical conditioning is that the organism is active in learning. Learning has been realized as a result of mental effort. In Pavlov's classical conditioning, he was rewarded without doing anything (for example, the dog took meat without any effort). In operant conditioning, the organism (animal or human) has to do something to get a reward or escape punishment. I guess it wouldn't be wrong to say that there is intelligence learning, not emotion learning.