Sample answer for the Classical Conditioning application qu

This scenario suggests Jack has associated the nurses white clothes with the injection Jack received at the doctors surgery This can be explained using classical conditioning Jack has an automatic unconditioned fear of injections as they are painful Jack did not previously elicit any response when in contact with the doctors surgery or nurses as he was not screaming when they arrived at the surgery We can therefore assume that the nurse was a neutral stimulus The pairing of the nurse with the injection induced a onetrail learning response of fear as Jack did not stop crying until the nurse left the room This suggests that he associated the pain from the injection with the nurse as even when she wasnt injecting him anymore her presence was still eliciting a fear response screaming

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