Chapter 6 discusses classical conditioning- a form of learning in which a neutral stimulus paired with another stimulus elicits an automatic response. This observation was first made by Ivan Pavolov. In his experiment, the dog would only salivate upon exposure to the food. However, after a while, the dog would anticipate the food and would begin salivating anyways. Thus Pavilov, prepared the food behind a curtain. Suprisingly, the dog still salivated upon hearing the bell despite that no food was present. In this case the
unconditioned response: food
unconditioned response: salvation
conditioned stimulus: the bell
conditioned response: salvation
Here is a similar experiment from The Office. Now see if you can identify the responses and stimuli.
(The link to The Office clip is tagged below)
http://www.spike.com/video-clips/0jnov0/the-office-the-jim-trains-dwight
p.s. If you get all the stimuli and responses correct, you get an Altoid!
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