Paragraph (6) Your bright cat has learned that your presence in the kitchen is a
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Paragraph (6) Your bright cat has learned that your presence in the kitchen is associated with food. Your cat has also learned that he can encourage your presence in the kitchen on Saturday mornings by standing on your chest and meowing (when you are obviously trying to sleep). You decide to get up and feed the cat to shut it up, but the problem only gets worse on subsequent weekends. Classical or operant? (Be careful with this one!) You know the drill. If it's operant, what kind of consequence is involved? If it's classical, what are the assorted stimuli and responses? Could it be both operant and classical? (7) You throw a wild party at which you consume too much alcohol (vodka and orange juice). You become very sick and spend a few hours vomiting. The next morning while cleaning up the mess, you get a whiff of the vodka and orange juice that were still sitting out in the kitchen. You immediately become nauseated and run to the bathroom to vomit some more (pretty picture, isn't it?). Classical or operant? Both What are the assorted stimuli and responses involved?Explanation / Answer
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A) This behavior is both classical conditioning as well as operant conditioning. Classical conditioning is you and the kitchen together and operant conditioning is feeding the car again and again in order to stop the annoying behaviour .
B) the conditioning form of classical conditioning is negative reinforcement where food is given to stop an annoying behavior. The US here is food; the CS here is the kitchen. Both UR & CR are hunger.
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