Thursday, July 18, 2013

Classical Conditioning on 'The Office'


While I'm on the topic of psychology (see previous post), I might as well mention this video. This is something I used for a class assignment like three years ago:

This episode of 'The Office' demonstrates a specific type of learning called classical conditioning. This type of learning involves pairing a neutral stimulus with a unconditioned stimulus (UCS) known to evoke a specific emotion or behavior. If the conditioning is successful, exposure to the neutral stimulus will bring about the behavior caused by the UCS even when the UCS is absent. This behavior is called the conditioned response.






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