Jose, Elijah Aaron A.

PHI 41

*ASSIGNMENT (EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY)

Classical conditioning, formulated by named Ivan Pavlov, is a type of learning that

acquires new information and behavior based on associating a certain situation. Many experts
believe that classical conditioning deals with our reaction based on our experience. It is also
believed that classical conditioning refers to a learning process based on a paired stimulus, where
a strong stimulus is paired with a neutral-level stimulus in order to create a response.

There is one experience in my life that I believe would fall under classical conditioning,
which is praying the Angelus (Regina Coeli during the Easter season) at both noontime and at 6
o’clock in the evening. Because I have been studying in Catholic schools since first grade, there
is this certain habit that I acquired since second grade, when every 12 o’clock at noon, the school
bell would ring, which means that we are going to pray the Angelus, and upon hearing it, we
would pause whatever we are doing. I got a bit of a culture shock because back in my school in
first grade, we did not pray the Angelus every noontime. I have not quickly adapted to that habit
for a few months, until I became used to doing it. I carried that habit when I transferred to
another school in fourth grade (which also does the same habit, making it easy for me to adapt)
and until now, because here in DLSU-D, the Angelus/Regina Coeli is prayed before the 12
o’clock Mass (if I’m not serving or attending the Mass, I stop walking once I hear the prayer)
and at 6 o’clock in the evening (from Mondays to Thursdays, before the chapel closes, except for
Fridays, in which the chapel closes one hour earlier). Because oftentimes I stay at our spot in the
chapel after my class with my friends, whenever we hear the Angelus/Regina Coeli at 6:00pm,
we stop whatever we are doing, but (as for another habit that I sort of learned) we make sure that
we are already downstairs by that time.