Unconditioned Stimulus and Unconditioned Response
Consider your own reflexive or respondent behaviors that occur as a result of a previous stimulus-stimulus pairing in your environment. Using the respondent conditioning "equation" to guide your organization, identify the unconditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response.
Next, identify the neutral stimulus, and discuss the event(s) that contributed to the formation of the conditioned stimulus eliciting the conditioned response. How does this respondent behavior impact you in your environment? If this behavior impacts you in a negative way, describe the process you could use to extinguish the stimulus-stimulus pairing that elicits your conditioned response. If this behavior impacts you in a positive way, describe the process you could use to elicit the same response under the control of other stimuli.
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Unit 3 Discussion
A reflex response to a certainly occurring or unconditioned stimulus in a classical condition is combined with an unconditioned stimulus. I tend to get irritated whenever I wake up, which contributed to changing my alarm to my favorite song since I believe it would make me wake up a bit happier. Unfortunately, that has not been the case because I usually become frustrated whenever I hear the song. In this instance, the Unconditioned response is becoming irritated to waking up. On the other side, the music is the unconditioned stimulus.
A neutral stimulus consists of a response before it is conditioned; in my situation is the song. A neutral stimulus tends to be associated with an optimistic stimulus that initially causes the response before conditioning. This conditioned response adversely affects my favorite song. Fortunately, there is an effective way to minimize it by employing Systematic Desensitization. This approach addresses ex...