We did a lot of things this week. Monday, W's dad came in and I thought that it was very interesting. I remember hearing about some of those things when I toured Madison, but I didn't know what exactly they were talking about. Tuesday was the test, besides the fact that it was kind of ridiculous that there were 15 or so questions from the last test, I thought it went well. The past two days, we have talked about learning. For some of the examples for both classic and operant conditioning, I was a little confused. At home, there are definitely examples of conditioning. The best example would be with my cat. My cat likes food, actually he REALLY likes food. His food dish is in the bathroom which is right by the garage. Whenever someone in our family walks to fill up his dish, the floor creaks. Now whenever we walk to the garage, causing the floor to creak, he comes running because he thinks he is getting food.
I understand that this is conditioning, but what kind, operant or classic?
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Jason, this would be classic conditioning. Because your cat likes food and whenever you would give him his food, it would be associated with the creak. And so now, whenever the creak is heard, he automatically thinks there is food involved and will come running.
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I would agree with Katie that this case of conditioning would be classical. Classical conditioning is when a stimulus is followed by a response. In operant conditioning there is a behavior followed by a consequence. In this case, there is a stimulus(the creeking floor) and a response (cat believing to be receiving food) which leads me to believe it is CC.
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