S M A R T I E S: March 2013

a Classical Conditioning Analysis on Lizard Oh Lizard!

Lizard oh Lizard!

Classical Conditioning Model

Step 1 : NS à

(Lizard) (no response)

Step 2 : NS

(Lizard) à UCR

UCS (Disgusted)

(Lizard cuts off its tail)

Step 3 : CS à CR

(Lizard) (Disgusted)

Common Phenomenon in Classical Conditioning

1. ASSOCIATIVE BIAS

UCS UCR

Lizard cuts off its tail à disgusted

UCS + NS (salient) UCR

Lizard cuts off its tail Lizard à disgusted

CS CR

Lizard à Disgusted

2. Extinction

UCS UCR

Cicakman Movie à No more feel disgust towards lizard

(the cool hero)

CS CR

Lizard à No more feel disgust towards lizard

3. SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY

UCS UCR

Trapped dead lizard à Feel disgusted again

CS CR

Lizard à Feel disgusted (but weaker response)

4. GENERALIZATION

UCS UCR

Baby rabbits à Feel disgusted because it share the common characteristics of lizard

CS CR

Baby rabbits à Feel disgusted

5. STIMULUS DISCRIMINATION

CS+ UCS CR

Lizard + Lizard cut tail off à disgusted

CS- + NO UCS CR

Iguana à no more feel disgusted

6. HIGHER ORDER CONDITIONING

STEP 1:

NS UCS UCR

Lizard + lizard cuts off its tail à disgusted

STEP 2:

CS₁ CR

Lizard à disgusted

STEP 3:

NS₂CS₁ CR

Lizard’s sound + Lizard à disgusted

STEP 4:

CS₂ CR

Lizard’s sound à disgusted

7. SENSORY PRECONDITIONING

STEP 1:

NS₁ NS₂

Lizard + Lizard’s sound à no response

STEP 2:

NS₁ UCS UCR

Lizard + Lizard cuts off its tail à disgusted

STEP 3:

CS₁CR

Lizard à disgusted

CS₂ CR

Lizard’s sound à disgusted

Da'wa Project

Assalamualaikum.
Hye guys.

For the last class on Thursday (14/3/2013), Madam Lihanna ask us to do our first project which is the Da'wa Project. For the purpose of this project, we have discuss with our group members and decide to do:

1) Target behaviour

we want to find the person that can't recite the quran fluently

the frequency of the person recite the quran

2) Target group

children

adolescence

"Lizard Oh Lizard" presentation times =D

Assalamualaikum.
Hello everyone.

For the last Tuesday classes, (12/3/2013), all group have been presenting their own story as been instruct by our lovely lecturer, Madam Lihanna. For SMARTIES group, we have choose Feni as our representative to tell to the other members about our unique story that have been post in early entry. Congratulations to Feni because she manage to deliver the story smoothly and most of the students understand about our story. If you want to read and understand more about our classical conditioning story, click this link okey =)

Lizard Oh Lizard

Our lovely Miss Feni with her own style =)

Lizard OH Lizard !

Assalamualaikum w.b.t..

We have been assigned to write up a story based on common phenomena in classical conditioning. There are numbers of common phenomena that related to classical conditioning described by Pavlov and other behaviorists. The story below will examine some of the common phenomena: associative bias, extinction, generalization, stimulus discrimination, spontaneous recovery, higher order conditioning and sensory preconditioning. Lets read the story! Have fun learning and reading! :D

Ana :)

Ana is a pretty girl who study in a one of the famous university in Malaysia. She has one ticklish, repugnance and disgusting feelings ( or in Malay we call it as 'geli') toward a reptile animal which is lizard. Whenever she saw a lizard she will automatically jump and ran from that place. Sometimes this feeling make her feel fear towards lizard.

Hi.. :P

The story began when she was in form two; a lizard hide in her cloth. She pick the cloth and wear it without feel weird. Suddenly, a lizard come out and she spontaneously touch it. At the same time, a lizard cut off its tail and it make she more disgusted. After time to time, whenever she see a lizard she will make a ticklish response. Whenever she see a lizard, she will remember the tail that's been cut off from the lizard.
( associative bias).

Lizard's tail

After several years, a movie 'Cicakman' was being published by KRU Studios Sdn. Bhd. Her friends ask her to watch that movie because during that time 'Cicakman' movie one of the blockbuster movie in Malaysia. She watched that movie and fell in love with the character of that hero potrayed in the movie; kind, helpful, strong, humorous and others. She then felt impressed because the hero in the movie wear a lizard costume! Apart from that, she has never seen any scene which shows the lizard that cut off its tail (since it was the reason why she do not like the lizard). So, she feel no longer disgusted when she see a lizard after that. Then, she herself for a long time have never seen or experience the cut off tail by the lizard which she being disgusted of whenever she saw the lizard. Since that, she no longer felt ticklish or disgusted towards the lizard. (extinction).

Cicak-Man Movie

Time goes by, she entered the university. She got a room at level four in her hostel and when she entered her room there were two sisters there. They talked to each other for a few minutes and she started to tidy up her room. Suddenly, she saw a die lizard without tail was trapped in the locker. She started to feel disgusted again even though that feeling was gone after watched "Cicakman" movie. (spontaneous recovery).

On a fine day, her friend, Zana invited Ana to have a dinner at her house. She accept the invitation. Once she arrived, Zana showed her four "baby rabbits" that were born a few hours ago. As we all know "baby rabbit" has no fur at all and looks skinny. She felt very disgusted even though it is not a lizard, but the physical characteristic is the same. Not only that, she was having the same feelings towards other reptiles such as snake, comodo lizard (biawak) and others because they don't have fur and have a scaled skin. Luckily, she wasn't afraid to animal that has fur like cats and "adult rabbits". (generalization).

Zana rabbit's babies

After a few weeks, she saw one sister pass by while bringing an iguana. That iguana does resemble some characteristics of the common lizard that often found at the ceiling. At first, she did felt ticklish towards the Iguana, however after several days watching her friends happily playing with the iguana without having any disgust feelings, she's now only directed his ticklish and disgust feelings only to the lizard which she have that feeling afraid of. Moreover, the iguana does not giving her any of that uncomfortable feelings, it does not moving around like the normal lizard did and it is hard to see an iguana cuts off its tail. (stimulus discrimination)

Iguana

For several days, she can't go to sleep because of that traumatic event that she had during the day when see a lizard and lizard cut off its tail and that make she felt disgusted again. While lying on her bed, she saw a lizard again at the roof along with "lizard's sound". When she heard "lizard's sound" without having to see it, spontaneously she felt disgusted. (higher order conditioning).

Lizard's at the roof

After two hours lying on the bed unable to sleep, she started to feel sleepy. Even she saw a lizard and her roommate sleep with pillow that shape like a lizard, she gave no response at all. Unluckily to her, a lizard fell to her face and cut off its tail. She surprisingly woke up and started screaming until all her roommate woke up from their sleep too. She told everything what happened to her. When she saw a lizard a very tragic event she will scream. Even though only lizard's tail left on the floor, she also will scream and ran from that area. (sensory preconditioning).

* all images credit to google.com
The end.

The Techniques of Memorizing

Assalamualaikum. For our next activities, Madam Lihanna ask us to come up with our own opinion about how to memorize thing easily regarding to the several concepts based on (Chaper 8 & Chapter 9) in Psychology of Learning textbook.

We need to complete the task during the class hour time and after we discuss it between our group members, alhamdulillah, we manage to build a great mind map about the several techniques to memorize something easily. Lets check it out =D