Question

Give an example of something that involves classical conditioning from your own life, making sure to outline the NS, US, UR, CS, CR.

Answer 1

The famous Pavlovian Classical condition with his dog still stands as one of the best experiments and used in different environments. Just like Pavlo made the Unconditional stimulus into conditioned stimulus, it happened in my life too. I have a dog and I used to take it for a walk every evening to the nearby park. Before going to the park, I used to take an umbrella in case of rain and give the dog few biscuits. Here the umbrella is the neutral stimulus and the biscuits are the unconditioned stimulus. The Unconditioned response was that it started salivating. It happened for a while and after a while, whenever I took the umbrella the dog started salivating because the dog had already started to associate the umbrella with the biscuits. The neutral stimulus umbrella thus became the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response had become the conditioned response.