Question

Little Phil received a shot from Nurse Wanda the last time he was at the doctor’s clinic. When he visits the same clinic, he begins to cry when Nurse Wanda enters the waiting room and calls his name. Provide a rationale for Phil’s behavior based on the principles of classical conditioning.

Answer 1

As per Phil received a shot from the nurse there a conditioning formed.When he saw the stimulus he started crying(response).So here, at first acquisition formed. It is the process by which an organism learns the association. Then he generalized the stimulus.Then he went through the process in which an organism learns to difference between different stimuli in order to restrict their response to one stimulus in particular is known as Stimulus Discrimination.Thus finally extinction occured, that means response occuredwhen there was no stimulus.