Skip to main content
Chemistry LibreTexts

Conditioning Experiments

  • Page ID
    187487
  • \( \newcommand{\vecs}[1]{\overset { \scriptstyle \rightharpoonup} {\mathbf{#1}} } \) \( \newcommand{\vecd}[1]{\overset{-\!-\!\rightharpoonup}{\vphantom{a}\smash {#1}}} \)\(\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\range}{\mathrm{range}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\RealPart}{\mathrm{Re}}\) \( \newcommand{\ImaginaryPart}{\mathrm{Im}}\) \( \newcommand{\Argument}{\mathrm{Arg}}\) \( \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\| #1 \|}\) \( \newcommand{\inner}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \(\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\range}{\mathrm{range}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\RealPart}{\mathrm{Re}}\) \( \newcommand{\ImaginaryPart}{\mathrm{Im}}\) \( \newcommand{\Argument}{\mathrm{Arg}}\) \( \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\| #1 \|}\) \( \newcommand{\inner}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\)\(\newcommand{\AA}{\unicode[.8,0]{x212B}}\)

    Research a famous conditioning experiment and report your findings to the class. Drop a summary in the drop box and be prepared to talk about your findings in class (unless you're part-time or from Children's). Feel free to work with another student if you would like.

    The summary should include:
    The experiment's name and creators.
    An explanation of what happened in the experiment.
    Your reaction to the experiment.
    You can create a document or power point or whatever else you can think of.

    Look for famous behaviorists like John Watson, B.F. Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, Albert Bandura, Edward Thorndike, etc. (Wikipedia is a good place to find behaviorist names).
    Also check out Youtube. There are a ton of videos on famous experiments from psychologists like Skinner and Bandura.


    Conditioning Experiments is shared under a not declared license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by LibreTexts.

    • Was this article helpful?