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RUNNING HEAD: BEHAVIOR CHANGE
Behavior Change

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Classical Conditioning
The process of classical conditioning depends on four principles; unconditioned stimulus,
unconditioned response, conditional stimulus, and a conditioned response. I have a certain
phobia or fear for dogs. Although I have researched and studied enough about the how dogs
behave and react but still under the similar situations in which I have to touch or face a dog, I
feel unconditionally afraid. I learned this fear after seeing a huge black dog barking loudly and
biting a friend of mine when we were coming back home from school. In this classical
conditioning learning experience, the barking sounds and biting was the unconditional stimulus
because it occurred naturally and it triggered an unconditional response of fear. Initially, the dog
was a neutral stimulus but because I could not forget about this incidence and I continuously
keep pairing the dog with fear and now whenever I see a dog, I feel afraid. This repeated pairing
of dog, which has now become a conditioned stimulus, with fear enhanced my phobia of fear for
dogs. This fear that I have learned from the previous unconditioned stimulus has now become a
conditioned response. It is because it has become the part of my general behavior.
Operant Conditioning
In my childhood, my parents motivated me to complete my homework and they told me
that if I completed my homework early, I could watch my favorite cartoons on the TV. I was
intrinsically motivated to complete my homework early without wasting any time because this
positive reinforcement presented by my parents increased enhanced my behavior of completing
homework. Watching cartoons was the direct reward for completing homework.

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RUNNING HEAD: BEHAVIOR CHANGE Behavior Change RUNNING HEAD: BEHAVIOR CHANGE Classical Conditioning The process of classical conditioning depends on four principles; unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditional stimulus, and a conditioned response. I have a certain phobia or fear for dogs. Although I have researched and studied enough about the how dogs behave and react but still under the similar situations in which I have to touch or face a dog, I feel unconditionally afraid. I learned this fear after seeing a huge black dog barking loudly and biting a friend of mine when we were coming back home from school. In this classical conditioning learning experience, the barking sounds and biting was the unconditional stimulus because it occurred naturally and it triggered an unconditional response of fear. Initially, the dog was a neutral stimulus but because I could not fo ...
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