What would the correlation be, if any? classical & opperant conditioning
September 28, 2017 9:38 AM   Subscribe

What would the neutral stimulus be in an example of the pitfalls of withholding sex for classical (pavlov dogs) and operant conditioning? Help me think through this.

I want to make the argument that withholding sex works but it may not be a good idea. So if a man's natural response is becoming aroused and wanting to have sex whenever he sees his woman looking extra sexy, what would the neutral stimulus be that she ends up associating with his response? Is it the chore she wants him to do, which he does to get sex - which means the negative outcome is he expects sex every time he does the chore? So it works but it is not a good idea (or would this be operant conditioning?)

Would an example of withholding sex not working be that since she is withholding every time he gets aroused that makes him associate her a bruised ego and eventually she won't arouse him anymore? Or is that again operant conditioning? Does any of this make sense? lol.
posted by soooo to Human Relations (1 answer total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: It feels like this is a question with some sort of specific context that'd make it more possible for folks to answer, but that's not in the question so this just feels like a sort of odd hypothetical. -- cortex

 
So if a man's natural response is becoming aroused and wanting to have sex whenever he sees his woman looking extra sexy,

You're begging the question. 1/ Who decides she's looking "extra sexy"? 2/ His possible reaction in your strange scenario might be "Hm, why is she wearing that strange new thing that doesn't cover one breast and looks like it's torn up the side? Is this another one of those stupid deals where she wants me to drive 100 miles to pick up her mother and bring her back here for the weekend?"

Does any of this make sense? lol.


You don't know if your own question makes sense? Maybe I don't understand the question but it doesn't sound like a good plan for human relations.

posted by JimN2TAW at 10:10 AM on September 28, 2017


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