Phase II Question #1 and Question A

1. Explain classical conditioning using a situation you have created.
-Usually whenever I'm at home and my mom yells my name, it's usually because she wants me to do some sort of task or chore. I gret to associate my mom yelling my name (stimulus 1) with chores (stimulus 2). The Unconditioned Response in this case is my natural dislike of chores. The Undconditioned Stimulus is chores, and the Condintioned Stimulus is the sound of my mom yelling my name, and the Conditioned Response is wanting to escape/feeling dread.

A. How do our first two units fit into the midterm project?
-We need to know the history of psychology to understand the subdivisions of it (like learning, memory, etc.) Example 1: our first chapter gave us a very brief intro to important psychologists like Pavlov. Knowing where his viewpoint comes from and which psychologists contributed to Pavlov's views will give us a better understanding of how Pavlov reached the point he did. Example 2: Knowing the subdivisions of psychology like neuroscience and cognitive give us a background for what the chapters we're reading are referring to in more depth (ex. we have to have a basic knowledge of the cognitive part of psychology to understand the memory and learning chapters). Furthermore, we need to know the scientific method (what it is and basic terms involved with it) to even understand what the textbook is talking about. Example 3: The chapters we're reading mention experiments, but we wouldn't have had the background knowledge of why experiments are so important (in certain cases they're better than surveys, correlation graphs, etc.) if we hadn't read the chapter about applying science to psychology.