1. Saturday morning at the Koines/Landry household…
I wake up around 5:00 am because I’ve woken up at that time almost every day for 10 years…
What type of learning is this?

2. Classical
UCS: alarm clock
UCR: waking
NS: time (5:00 am)
CS: time
CR: waking at 5:00 am

3. At 5:00 am, Moxie gets hungry
What type of conditioning is this?

4. Classical
UCS: eating/food
UCR: feeling hunger shortly before eating
NS: time (5:00 am)
CS: time
CR: feeling hunger at 5:00 am

5. Reinforcement or Punishment? Negative or Positive?
If I don’t get up in a timely manner, say by 5:10…
Moxie will start knocking things off my nightstand…
Books fall of the floor, I get up.
What type of learning is Moxie showing? (What type of conditioning is Moxie using on me?)
Operant
She has learned that if she knocks something on the floor, I will get up. And if I’m out of bed, I’ll feed her.
Reinforcement or Punishment?
Negative or Positive?
The more I get up in response to her knocking things on the floor, the more she’ll do it.

6. The books falling on the floor causes me to wake up.
What type of learning do I show?
Non-associative learning
Book hits the floor (stimulus)
And I get up (response)

7. Saturday morning at the Koines/Landry household… part II
As the cats are eating, I grind some coffee beans
This momentarily
frightens the cats
What type of learning is this?
Non-associative

8. As the cats are eating, I grind some coffee beans
This momentarily frightens the cats
Within a couple seconds, the cats go back to eating.
I grind some more coffee and they don’t make any reaction
What is the term for this?
Habituation