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The document provides 8 examples of classical conditioning, where an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) elicits an unconditioned response (UCR). Through repeated pairing, a neutral stimulus (CS) comes to elicit a conditioned response (CR) similar to the UCR. The examples illustrate how stimuli like sounds, sights, and places can become associated with emotional and physiological responses like fear, nausea, and increased heart rate through classical conditioning.

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Examples of Classical Conditioning 1

The document provides 8 examples of classical conditioning, where an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) elicits an unconditioned response (UCR). Through repeated pairing, a neutral stimulus (CS) comes to elicit a conditioned response (CR) similar to the UCR. The examples illustrate how stimuli like sounds, sights, and places can become associated with emotional and physiological responses like fear, nausea, and increased heart rate through classical conditioning.

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COVID-19 First year students

Examples of Classical Conditioning


1. Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the shower becomes very
hot and causes the person to jump back. Over time, the person begins to jump back
automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes.
Jumping away from hot water is an automatic response.
 The hot water is the UCS
 The jumping back is the UCR
 The toilet flush is the CS
 The jumping back to the flush alone is the CR

2. You eat a new food and then get sick because of the flu. However, you develop a dislike
for the food and feel nauseated whenever you smell it.
Nausea is an automatic response.
 The flu sickness is the UCS.
 The nausea is the UCR.
 The new food is the CS.
 The nausea to the new food is the CR.

3. An individual receives frequent injections of drugs, which are administered in a small


examination room at a clinic. The drug itself causes increased heart rate but after several
trips to the clinic, simply being in a small room causes an increased heart rate.
The increased heart rate is an automatic response.
 The drug is the UCS.
 The accelerated heart rate is the UCR.
 The small room is the CS.
 The accelerated heart rate to the room is the CR.

4. After a bad car accident, a student cringes and breaks into a sweat at the sound of
squealing brakes.
 The accident is the UCS
 The cringing is the UCR
 The sound of squealing breaks is the CS
 The cringing is the CR

5. John Watson conducted an experiment with a boy named Albert in which he paired a
white rat with a loud, startling noise. Albert now becomes startled at the sight of the
white rat.
The tartle response is an automatic behaviour.
 The loud noise is the UCS.
 The startle is the UCR.

Ms G Mifsud Friggieri pg. 1


COVID-19 First year students

 The white rat is the CS.


 The startle response to the white rat is the CR.

6. To treat alcoholics, we sometimes put a chemical in their drinks that makes them sick.
Eventually the taste of alcohol become aversive and they drink less.

 The chemical that makes the drinker sick is the UCS


 Feeling sick is the UCR
 The taste of alcohol is the CS
 Feeling sick is the CR

7. Suzy goes outside to play in her tree house. A swarm of bees has nested near her house,
and she gets stung several times when she climbs up to the tree house. This happens 3
times in a week. Suzy then becomes afraid to go near the tree and cries violently when her
dad tries to get her to climb up to the tree house.

 Getting stung is the UCS


 Pain (fear of getting stung) is the UCR
 CS Tree house is the CS
 Fear of Tree House is the CR

8. A student survives a plane crash that occurred because of a thunderstorm. Now,


whenever the student hears thunder, he gets anxious.
 Plane Crash is the UCS
 Fear because of plane crash is the UCR
 Thunder is the CS
 Fear of thunder is the CR.

Ms G Mifsud Friggieri pg. 2

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