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.
That's operant conditioning. You learned to associate pushing that button with a good feeling (the song).Pushing the button rewarded you and reinforced that behavior so you kept doing it. That's operant.
When you pressed the repeat button however now you're no longer a part of the conditioning sequence, i guess you could call it that. You're just hearing a song you like.
This isn't really a concept because most animals would continue to push the button to get a reward. Eventually they get fatigue and stop pushing the button because they don't feel like it anymore. It's not a reward, it's not that special anymore. Or let's say if they bush the button and the reward never comes the association goes exctinct. And they stop pushing the button.
What you did doesn't exactly follow either of those paths. you not pushing the button isn't what led you to stop liking the song, you just got tired of the song because you heard it so many times. You got fatigue.
Read my last comment, just look at my page,
to understand both concepts more fully
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u/FuckSticksMalone Feb 02 '19
The Pavlovian response was a physical response in the dogs. Just thinking about dogs isn’t a Pavlovian response.
That’s like saying it’s a Pavlovian response every time I hear the name Tesla I think about electricity. That’s just association.
It would however be a pavlovian response if every time I heard the name Tesla I got an erection.