Classical Conditioning Paper

Classical Conditioning Over the last 100 years classical conditioning evolved from a simple transfer of one stimuli to another to more complex studies of conditioning. Researchers still use classical conditioning today as a method used to study associative learning (Terry, 2009). Classical conditioning has several levels: Behaviorally - is learning of a new response, cognitively - is to gain knowledge between the stimuli’s relationships, and neutrally - is the synaptic changes that motivate training. Four basic phenomena of conditioning are acquisition, extinction, generalization, and discrimination. Classical conditioning is important to the learning process that will come to light in this paper.
Concept of Classical Conditioning/Factors
These phenomena help explain how conditioning occurs and how the classical conditioning works. The results of conditioned stimulus (CS) – unconditioned stimulus (US) trials are the conditional response development considered to be acquisition. For other reasons the conditioned response may occur with controlled procedures. In conditioning groups controlled procedures are used as a way to build a baseline in the experiment. During experiments the CS and US are stimulated in different ways, sometimes they are randomly controlled using separate programs at different times giving different responses. The extinction of a response is the decrease or disappearance altogether of already conditioned CS alone and without the US. This causes an extinction of the conditioning. Several psychologists have thought extinction to be the opposite of acquisition. Extinction does not eradicate CS-US connection only restrains it. This is seen when the conditioning returns after the believed extinction takes place. Example of this would be an experiment takes the fear of a dog away from a child. After the child shows no fear of the dog for several weeks and is taken away from the dog and reintroduced several weeks later and the fear returns. The child would need to go back through the therapy of removing the fear