Title: Conditioned Response in Classical Conditioning
Headings: Conditioned Response in Classical Conditioning
Conditioned Response in Classical Conditioning
Identifying a Conditioned Response
In Classical Conditioning
Extinction
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Content: If you are bitten by a barking dog, you may experience feelings of fear and anxiety whenever you hear a barking noise. In Classical Conditioning
Let's take a closer look at how the conditioned response works in classical conditioning. Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov first discovered the classical conditioning process during his research on the salivary systems of dogs. 2 Pavlov noted that the dogs would salivate to the taste of meat, but that after a while they also began to salivate whenever they saw the white coat of the lab assistant who delivered the meat. To look a closer at this phenomenon, Pavlov introduced the sound of a tone whenever the animals were fed. Eventually, an association was formed, and the animals would salivate whenever they heard the sound, even if no food was present. In Pavlov's classic experiment, the food represents what is known as the unconditioned stimulus (UCS). 3 This stimulus naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response (UCR), which in this case was salivation. After pairing the unconditioned stimulus with a previously neutral stimulus, the sound of the tone, an association is formed between the UCS and the neutral stimulus. Eventually, the previously neutral stimulus begins to evoke the same response, at which point the tone becomes known as the conditioned stimulus.