Association of Drugs with Pleasure.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:49:27
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 1 pages (363 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 1 pages (363 words)
Throughout life we are subjected to countless stimuli, and our responses to those stimuli shape and affect our lives and those surrounding us. This example of real life classical conditioning is one that took a negative effect on a close friend of mine. My senior year in high school my friend formed a new group of people he associated with. This was not a problem until drugs entered the equation, and soon after he began …
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…neutral when introduced, with the enjoyment he had when with his friends. However, the conditioned response was in response to the drugs and not his friends. The idea behind this would be to replace the feelings of pleasure associated with drug use to feelings of discomfort and disgust whenever he thinks of drugs. This differs from operant conditioning because his behavior with the associated stimulus (drugs) was not strengthened or diminished from reinforcement or punishment.
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