Critical Thinking Learning Psych 101
David Larson
Psychology101
Professor Angleberger
September 26, 2014 Critical Thinking: Learning Part I: The example I found for Classical Conditioning comes from the television show “The
Office”. “The Office” is a comedy TV series on NBC that shows all the events inside a modern paper company branch in the setting of a business office. It takes the common office idea and turns it into an endless comedy with the boss being Steve Carrell. The episode I found that fit classical conditioning was season 3, episode 16 “Phyllis Wedding”. This episode actually came out and talked about Pavlov’s experiment with the dogs salivation when exposed to meat. In this episode Dwight (one of the workers in the office) is being conditioned to respond to the sound of the computer rebooting by Jim ( office coworker). Jim originally asks Dwight if he would like a piece of gum and Dwight puts out his hand to receive the gum. In the meantime Jim’s computer makes a rebooting noise. Jim’s computer’s noise it makes whenever it reboots is the neutral stimulus. Jim asking if Dwight would like a piece of gum is the unconditioned stimulus and Dwight sticking out his hand is the unconditioned response.
Jim continues to condition Dwight by doing this experiment multiple times where he continued to give Dwight piece’s of gum whenever he asked him. Later, Jim made the noise on his computer without asking Dwight if he would like a piece of gum. Dwight automatically puts his hand out to receive gum. The neutral stimulus being the computer noise becomes the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response is Dwight sticking out his hand. Dwight not receiving the gum goes ahead to say “ahh my mouth tastes so bad all of a sudden.” The computer noise is the neutral stimulus because it had nothing to do with wanting gum prior to
Jim conditioning Dwight. The asking if Dwight wanted a piece of gum is the unconditioned stimulus because it triggers the response being Dwight
Psychology101
Professor Angleberger
September 26, 2014 Critical Thinking: Learning Part I: The example I found for Classical Conditioning comes from the television show “The
Office”. “The Office” is a comedy TV series on NBC that shows all the events inside a modern paper company branch in the setting of a business office. It takes the common office idea and turns it into an endless comedy with the boss being Steve Carrell. The episode I found that fit classical conditioning was season 3, episode 16 “Phyllis Wedding”. This episode actually came out and talked about Pavlov’s experiment with the dogs salivation when exposed to meat. In this episode Dwight (one of the workers in the office) is being conditioned to respond to the sound of the computer rebooting by Jim ( office coworker). Jim originally asks Dwight if he would like a piece of gum and Dwight puts out his hand to receive the gum. In the meantime Jim’s computer makes a rebooting noise. Jim’s computer’s noise it makes whenever it reboots is the neutral stimulus. Jim asking if Dwight would like a piece of gum is the unconditioned stimulus and Dwight sticking out his hand is the unconditioned response.
Jim continues to condition Dwight by doing this experiment multiple times where he continued to give Dwight piece’s of gum whenever he asked him. Later, Jim made the noise on his computer without asking Dwight if he would like a piece of gum. Dwight automatically puts his hand out to receive gum. The neutral stimulus being the computer noise becomes the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response is Dwight sticking out his hand. Dwight not receiving the gum goes ahead to say “ahh my mouth tastes so bad all of a sudden.” The computer noise is the neutral stimulus because it had nothing to do with wanting gum prior to
Jim conditioning Dwight. The asking if Dwight wanted a piece of gum is the unconditioned stimulus because it triggers the response being Dwight