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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by animal studies

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because what better way to test makeup then trying it on a pig someone may have [Pig wearing make up and Kermit appears]

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to hold that Kermit here come on dude Alright,

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In Thorndike's cat trap boxes the cat learns a series of moves to free himself

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so he can obtain his dinner if the cat does not see food the conditioning will

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disappear and the cat will forget the sequence of escape this process is known

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as what and here the potential answers

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well, Thorndike liked cats and like [Thorndike with 3 cats]

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jigsaw he expressed his affection through complex devious traps

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well Thorndike was using operant conditioning to programme or [Cat wearing a small graduation cap]

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teach the cats, this is operant conditioning which strengthens and

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weakens voluntary behavior now classical conditioning is like what Pavlov did

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with dogs, pairing neutral signs with reflex to strengthen an involuntary [Bell rings and dog looks closely]

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behavior like drooling and also like how the ice-cream truck song makes

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three-year-olds go ballistic all right who are we kidding, it makes us go

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ballistic, we love that thing....Aversion tendency is our tendency

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to avoid risk even at the cost of losing rewards like how you could go out and [Girl exercising in the street and car hits her]

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exercise but well you might get hit by a car, totally rational..generalization

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is the tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli. Big

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bells or little bells Pavlov's dogs still drool, now remember that in operant

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conditioning you're pairing reinforcement with learned behavior cat's[Dog chasing a ball]

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get food when they solve puzzles, kids get stickers when they finger paint

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not on the wall if you remove reinforcement that learned behavior

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decreases over time although sometimes it's randomly coming back which is

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spontaneous recovering but the process of loss is called extinction so we're

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not talking about what happened to the dinosaurs or M. Nght Shyamalan directing [Asteroid hits the floor and burns]

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career ....extinction is a decrease in

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learned response over time making D the correct answer for our next animal study

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will discuss a long-running hallucinogenic study called the muppets [Muppets on stage]

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