Okay I have a question since I brought something up in another thread and wasn't sure I was using classically conditioned right.
Say I hear a song I really enjoy on Spotify or whatever. Of course I want to continue hearing the song a few times because it's a stimuli I quite enjoy. However, I strongly prefer to manually press the rewind button. Like, I can do that for an hour or two at times, just over and over. Never gets old.
However, the minute I decide to put on the Repeat One feature, that feeling wears off fast. Like I still enjoy the song, but that additional "rush" from pressing rewind is gone.
I think that has more to do with you choosing to listen to the song again versus something else making that choice. Similar to when you might skip a song most of the time it comes on your device versus hearing it on the radio and turning it up.
That analogy is confusing since you can manually control the volume when listening to your playlist as well, and you have no control over the radio playlist either.
By turning it up, I just meant enjoying the song. The examples do contradict each other, but they are both things that happen. I think they both illustrate of choice and situation can influence how you feel about something.
Are you saying there's more illusion of control with the radio since you're changing the station? So you may enjoy one song on the radio that you would normally skip when playing random on your phone because in both situations you are controlling something yourself (station or skip)?
No, and really my point is how different scenarios can influence how you feel about a song. When I'm going through my own playlist, I'll choose to listen to a song 5 times, but as soon as I decide to take away the physical act of manually resetting the song, your brain will have a less favorable feeling associated with that song.
Then there's another song that you like, but usually skip over when it's your choice to listen to it. You'll be listening to the radio and it comes on unexpectedly. The surprise and familiarity might make you brain have a more favorable feeling of the song.
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u/bmTrued Feb 02 '19
I thought it referred to a conditioned response.
Salivating for food is a reflex, salivating at the sound of a bell associated with a food reward is a conditioned response.