Prompted Post #10: Remixing Knowledge

Classical conditioning is one of the biggest advances in psychology till this day. It was found accidentally by the famous Psychologist, Ivan Pavlov. He noticed that his dogs would salivate whenever they saw food. His dogs would even salivate every time he entered the room whether he was feeding them or not. Later on he realized that this salivation was their response to the expectation that he was about to fed them. This lead him to conduct an experiments on his dogs, which gave us the basic knowledge of  how we learn; through the associations that our brain makes with a stimulus and a response. 

There are four steps to this learning process. There is a neutral stimulus (NS), which in this case is the bell. This sound naturally does not lead to any response. Then there is the unconditioned stimulus (UCS), which would be the food. The food leads to an unconditioned response (UCR), the salivation, which does not need to be learned. After several times of hearing the bell (NS) immediately followed by the food (UCS), which naturally leads to salivation (UCR), something amazing happens. After this association occurs time and time again, the Bell will then trigger the salivation, even when there is no food present. This is because the dogs learned to associate the Bell (Now the Conditioned Stimulus) with the expectation of food which means automatic salivation (Now the Conditioned Response)

After searching on the internet for this information, I found a really cool remix project that was made on Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning. As you can see, the author organized all of the information that I just told you, on this simple, easy to read flow chart. This remix project was created for those people who are searching the internet for quick information. It is aimed at those who don't want to spend a bunch of time reading. They just want simple information, or an overview. This project's audience is also directed for those visual learners who learn better with pictures then words. The purpose of this project was to help the audience understand the topic of classical conditioning in a simple, straight to the point manner. It also adds a lot to the writing because if the audience member gets hooked with this chart, they may be more likely to read on.

I think this remix of classical conditioning was very successful. It organized the information in a clear and systematic way and made it a lot easier to understand. The rhetorical strategies do what they are suppose to by complimenting the writing and keeping things clear and interesting.

Sources:

Stangor, Charles. "Chapter 7 Learning." Learning. Unnamed Publisher, n.d. Web. 27 Mar. 2014.