How Organism Learn: Classical And Operant Conditioning

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response here is that the response was
learned. The stimulus begins as neutral and causes no conditioned response.
However, if the neutral stimulus can be associated with another stimulus, then
it becomes a conditioned stimulus.
Classical conditioning can be exemplified in the home, school, and school.
In the home a child could smell brownies baking in the kitchen which makes her
mouth water. The brownies are the unconditioned stimulus, the smell is the
conditioned stimulus, and the watering of the mouth is the conditioned response
(Myers 267-68). In work a man may be waiting to be fired. When he sees his
boss he begins to sweat. The unconditioned stimulus is getting fired, the
conditioned stimulus is the sight of the boss, the conditioned response is the
sweating. In school a boy may be in class when suddenly the fire alarm goes off
at which time the boy walks to exit the building. The unconditioned stimulus is
fear of a fire, the conditioned stimulus is the sound ...

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