Jeanette was happy when she heard her family’s plan to go to a water sports show. Then she heard the weather report, which predi
cted temperatures exceeding 100 degrees and suspected that the weather would be hard to bear, but she went to the show anyway. As she watched the water skiers perform taxing routines to the blaring organ music, she got more and more sweaty and uncomfortable. Eventually, she fainted from the heat. After the family outing, Jeanette could never again hear organ music without feeling a little dizzy. Explain in detail plz
The situation is an example of classical conditioning. A new behavior was learned because what used to be a neutral stimulus was associated with an unconditioned stimulus. Let's break it down below to better understand it:
an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) is something that produces a natural reaction in or from us - an unconditioned response (UR). In the given situation, the UCS is the heat. We normally respond to heat by sweating and feeling thirsty. When it is too hot, we may even faint.
a neutral stimulus (NS) is something that does not necessarily produce a response. In the passage, it is the organ music. We wouldn't normally sweat or faint while listening to organ music.
Because Jeannette was feeling uncomfortable due to heat while listening to organ music, she ended up associating the two stimuli.
Now, organ music has become a conditioned stimulus (CS). It now has the power, so to speak. of making her faint even though what originally made her faint was the heat.
Therefore, fainting is now a conditioned response (CR). Every time Jeanette listens to organ music, she will feel dizzy because of the association explained above.
