Consider Your Own Reflexive Or Respondent Behaviors

Consider Your Own Reflexive Or Respondent Behaviors That Occur As A Re

Consider your own reflexive or respondent behaviors that occur as a result of a previous stimulus-stimulus pairing in your environment. Using the respondent conditioning "equation" to guide your organization, identify the unconditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response. Next, identify the neutral stimulus, and discuss the event(s) that contributed to the formation of the conditioned stimulus eliciting the conditioned response. How does this respondent behavior impact you in your environment? If this behavior impacts you in a negative way, describe the process you could use to extinguish the stimulus-stimulus pairing that elicits your conditioned response. If this behavior impacts you in a positive way, describe the process you could use to elicit the same response under the control of other stimuli. 250 words and 4 references with APA style

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Reflexive or respondent behaviors are automatic responses that occur as a result of classical conditioning processes. This form of learning involves the association between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus, which eventually leads to the neutral stimulus eliciting a conditioned response. In my personal experience, I have observed a respondent behavior where the smell of certain foods elicits hunger.

The unconditioned stimulus (US) in this case is the smell of food, which naturally triggers hunger—the unconditioned response (UR). The neutral stimulus initially was the sound of a particular song that played consistently before meals. Over time, repeated pairing of this song with the presentation of food odor led the song to become a conditioned stimulus (CS). Now, hearing this song alone triggers feelings of hunger, the conditioned response (CR). This association was formed through repeated stimulus pairing, where the neutral stimulus gained significance when consistently presented alongside the unconditioned stimulus, leading to a learned response.

This respondent behavior impacts my environment because it influences my appetite cues unexpectedly based on auditory cues. If I wish to reduce this conditioned response, I could employ extinction by presenting the conditioned stimulus (the song) repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus (food odor). Over time, this would weaken the association, diminishing the hunger response triggered by the song. Conversely, if I wanted to evoke the same hunger response intentionally, I could pair the song regularly with food smells in controlled settings, effectively conditioning a new stimulus-response association.

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