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#1. Jamie, who has no prior history of sweating at the sight of food jars, recently experienced an intense physiological response. She started sweating profusely while exerting significant effort to open a very tightly sealed jar of pickles. Weeks later, whenever Jamie simply sees any jar of food even if it’s not tight or requires no effort she immediately breaks out into a sweat. In this respondent conditioning scenario, Jamie’s current sweating response to the mere sight of jars of food is best described as a(n)
This scenario precisely illustrates the process of respondent classical conditioning Initially the intense physical effort and strain required to open the tight jar which functions as an Unconditioned Stimulus UCS naturally elicited a physiological response of sweating an Unconditioned Reflex UCR The jar of food itself prior to this experience was a Neutral Stimulus NS regarding sweating Through the repeated or salient pairing of the NS jar of food with the UCS efforttight jar the jar of food transformed into a Conditioned Stimulus CS Subsequently Jamies sweating response to the mere sight of any jar of food now elicited by the CS is a Conditioned Reflex CR It is not an unconditioned reflex because the sweating is no longer an innate response to a primary physiological stressor effort but a learned response to a previously neutral now conditioned stimulus The jar itself is the conditioned stimulus not the response Sweating is an involuntary physiological response making it a respondent behavior not an operant behavior which is voluntary and controlled by its consequences
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