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Classical Conditioning: Q:2 What Is The Neutral Stimulus? Why?
Classical Conditioning: Q:2 What Is The Neutral Stimulus? Why?
Your favorite snack is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Whenever you get that snack, it makes
you happy and you start to jump around, doing your happy PB&J dance. Your sandwich always
comes on the same plate – it’s big and orange and has a picture of a tiger on it. Eventually, you
might start doing your PB&J dance whenever you see your tiger plate on the table, in
anticipation of the sandwich arriving.
When a lab rat presses a blue button, he receives a food pellet as a reward, but when he presses
the red button he receives a mild electric shock. As a result, he learns to press the blue button but
avoid the red button.