Conditioning...

There are two types of condition one being operant and one being classical. Classical conditioning sticks out more in my mind just because its something that you see everyday. Knowing I had to write this wonderful blog, I decided to look around today to see if I could find an example classical conditioning. I tried a mini experiment on alana today.In german class, we weren't doing anything fun so I thought of all the homework I had. When remembering again that I had this amazing blog to write, I pulled a little trick on her using classical conditioning.
I began by starting with a sound of boop. Every time I said boop, I would lightly poke her with a pencil. After about 4 times of this, I was able to condition her to the point that every time I said boop, she knew I would poke her. Her reaction when I said boop was able to revolve from doing nothing into her covering the area I poked.

poke ---> pain
noise + poke ---> pain
noise ---> pain

This chart explains how I conditioned her. This made me notice that classical conditioning can be used in many ways and in everyday life. I really liked this unit and it was fun being able to relate to it while being hands on in creating our own experiments.