Aesop Analysis

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The affective extension of the sometimes-opponent process (AESOP) is a model that focuses on affection and sensory stimuli. The AESOP model has regulations on how the stimulus is to be represented hence showing how learning occurs either as a primary or secondary component. The theories associated with the learning process assume that experiences are documented in the hypothetical memory structure. This theory assumes that a stimulus whether conditioned or unconditioned has a response that could be conditioned or unconditioned. Pavlov carried out trials that exhibited that a dog would drool when it a bell is rung or when hungry. The sound of a bell or hunger is stimuli that trigger a response of salivating in the dog. Pavlov saw that both conditioned …show more content…

Pavlov saw that both the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli produced similar responses to indicate that the conditioned and unconditioned responses are the same. Pavlov saw that a conditioned stimulus triggers the same response as an unconditioned stimulus because the unconditioned stimulus initiates one brain part that has the role of handling the unconditioned stimulus. Pavlov also suggested that there is a connection that is present between the unconditioned stimulus brain center and the intellect center responsible for the unconditional response. A conditioned stimulus produces the same answer as the unconditioned stimulus because of …show more content…

Siegel carried out various experiments to show that conditioned and unconditioned responses are unlike. In the unconditioned stimulus, morphine was used to elicit analgesia that causes a decline in sensitivity to any form of pain. Analgesia is, therefore, an unconditioned response to the unconditional stimulus morphine. Siegel further showed that the conditioned response to stimuli applied together with morphine is hyperalgesia that is being highly sensitive to pain. Siegel observed that rats put under unconditioned stimuli, that is, rats that had morphine introduced in their systems showed higher latency to take their paws off a hot plate than the rats that were not injected with morphine (Bouton, 2007). However, when a light is introduced, the rats that were injected with morphine removed their paws more quickly from the hot plate than the rats that were not injected with morphine. Conditioning, therefore, could explain hostility in individuals who are under the influence of alcohol. Conditioning can further explain how drug tolerance functions and withdrawal symptoms that leads to drug addiction. Therefore with the use of morphine in unconditioned stimulus, the unconditional response is analgesia but in the conditioned stimulus coupled with morphine, the conditioned response is hyperalgesia. The conclusion is that the conditioned response and

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