Spots owner rides fer motorcycle home from work daily. Spot hears the sound of her owner's motorcycle as it pulls up outside but does not associate the sound with her owner's arrival at the door. The sound of the owner's motorcycle as it pulls up outside is considered the neutral stimulus. Spot not getting up to run to the door showed that the mortorcycle sounds created no conditioned response.
Before Conditioning
Story of classical Conditioning
Rumble of owners motorcycle pulling up outside
Unconditioned Response
Neutral stimulus"Rumble"Rumble of owners motorcyble pulling up outside
Spots owner rides her motorcycle home from work daily. Spot hears the sound of her owner's motorcycle as it pulls up outside but does not associate the sound with her owner's arrival at the door. The sound of the owner's motporcycle as it pulls up outside is condidered the neutral stimulus. Spot not getting up to run to the door showed that the motorcycle sounds created no conditioned response.
Before Conditioning
I hear a noise... but I still wish my owner was here to play...I'll wait...
No Response
Daily over the next few months, Spot hears her owner arrive on her motorcycle and the "jiggle" the door knob before coming inside. Spot responds by running to the door to greet her owner. Spot is learning to associate both the "jiggle" of the door knob and the sound of the motorcycle with her owner's arrival which together are triggering the original unconditioned response of running to the door.
Rumble of owner's motorcycle pulling up outside
Rumbles
Owner's here"Play time"
During conditioning
Unconditioned response
Over time, Spot has learned to recognize the sound of her owner's motorcycle as it pulls up and now when hearing it, runs to the door in anticipation of her owner's arrival. Spot has nopw learned to accept a once nuwtral stimulus(the sounds of her owner's motorcycle arriving), as a conditioned stimulus and continues to run to the door to greet herf owner. Spot running to th door upon hearing the motorcycle pull up is now a conditioned response.