Classical Conditioning Case Study

The factors which are evidence that classical conditioning is taking place in this case are: Emily feels embarrassed, runs to the bathroom, and leaves the school with the excuse that she does not feels well, when Mr. Robinson reveals her letter to the class. In this case Mr. Robinson’s revelation of her letter is the unconditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response is her feeling embarrassed and leaving the school. The conditioned stimulus is apparent in the case when Emily remembers the incident in Mr. Robinson’s class and the conditioned response is when she feels ill, her stomach begins to hurt, she feels her body begins to sweat, and she doesn’t want to go to school. Another conditioned response is when Emily returns to school she

The behavior modification that Mr. Robinson uses might be a negative stimulus, because we do not know what was Mr. Robinson’s intention in reading out loud Emily’s message, may be his intention was to eliminate Emily’s behavior of using the phone but it bounced back negatively, we could clearly see that Mr. Robinson has no personal problems with Emily as he is concerned about Emily’s absence and calls her parent. We can assume that Mr. Robinson being senseless or rather shallow about a teenagers life. There are many possible ways of avoiding this kind of classical conditioning in one’s classroom. I might put a mobile basket and ask every student to put their phone in it before the class and they could pick it up later after the class. If I found they still have their mobile phone I simply ask the ones who have their phone with them to put it in the basket. An easy solution will be giving the phone to the principle. Another possible solution will be providing I-pads for the students and having the lecture in an electronic social panel which is applied in many countries as a new and sufficient way of education, of course if we are talking about a public school in the US this is out of the question with the school budgets and cutting all the art classes the situation seems miserable fund and education

Her peer in the text act as the environmental factors i.e. unconditioned response. So, from the text we know that Emily’s peer are gossip loving not only the girls but the teenage boys too. I have assumed that from Emily’s embarrassment that some of Jordan’s friends have heard Mr. Robinson reading her letter and revealed her feeling for Jordan. Mr. Robinson could just had gestured that “somebody doesn’t paying attention,” or he could just clapped to make the class to pay the attention. It is nothing new that some teachers are going to new heights to embarrass their student’s they are good at amazing themselves at how inconsiderate they are about teenager’s feeling. If it was me, I would had said the use of the mobile phone is prohibited in the classroom, if I saw anyone holding or using a mobile phone it will be confiscated. I think Mr. Robinson should not be teaching in a middle school at least as long as he keeps this attitude.
Final Thoughts: There are always two sides to the stories. We don’t know if this was the first time Emily was using her phone in the classroom, or what is the teacher student relationship in the classroom. Maybe, Mr. Robinson’s intention was good, wanted to establish a good behavior for the class, but he did not realize what it might cause. Despite all the above mentioned