Principles of Operant Essay

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Note that with an US of food, you can think of the UR is several ways. It could be salivation, insulin release, gastric changes , etc. associated with the body getting ready to eat. These responses can also cause hunger, which facilitates eating as much as you can. So the UR could also be hunger . On the other hand, food and any other appetitive stimuli can produce approach behaviour . This goes along with a behaviour systems approach, where stimuli release a subset of behaviours. In general then, the UR and the CR can be thought of as being the way you respond to food, from feeling good, to making you hungry, to approaching and hoarding it.

1. US=shock, UR=fear from shock, CS=overhead, CR=fear from overhead
2. US=food, UR=salivation (hunger response) CS=kitchen, CR=hunger in kitchen 3. US=allergens (cat hair, etc.), UR=allergic reaction and bad feelings
(sneezing, etc.), CS=cats, CR=bad feelings from cat
4. US=too much booze, UR=nausea, CS=bacon bits, CR=nausea from bacon bits.
Also, taste aversion learning (bacon bits are very distinctive and she eats them only rarely)
5. US=pain from rubber band, UR=fear, CS=bad habit, CR=fear while performing bad habit. Also aversion therapy
6. US=radiation, UR=nausea, CS=food, CR=nausea. Also taste aversion learning 7. Sensory preconditioning (perfume and significant other become associated), US=yelling, UR=fear (feeling upset), CS=significant other,
CR=feeling upset. Because the perfume has already been associated with the significant other (before she started to be mean), it has the power to make you feel upset. (other interpretations are possible, but you must justify them).
8. US=food, UR=happy satisfied feeling, CS=new person, CR=happy feelings.
9. US=beer, UR=less thirst, CS=friends, CR=more thirsty. Also a compensatory reaction. (You could say that the response to beer, as to food, is a digestive, salivation, insulin release, and that these responses make you feel thirsty, facilitating your drinking, and thus the CR of being more thirsty is the same as the UR. Whatever makes you feel good).
10. Sensory Preconditioning. Person A and person B become associated first.
US=pain from being hit, UR=fear, CS=person who hit you, CR=fear from person. 11. US=loud noise, UR=fear, CS=route, CR=fear from route, Also discrimination, as fear does not generalize to other route or other dog. 12. Counter conditioning. US=scary movie (loud sounds, surprise), then
US=humour, UR=fear then happy feelings, CS=bowl of popcorn, CR=fear, then happiness
13. US=stress caused by studying, UR=bad feelings, CS=desk, CR=bad feelings
14. US=sex, UR=happy feelings, CS=perfume, CR=happy feelings, Also conditioned inhibition.