Experiment+Directions

**Activities and Procedures:**

I. **Cue-Set:** Have a student sit in a desk in the front of the classroom, facing the class. The teacher will stand behind the student with a yardstick in hand. The teacher will tap the desk three times then tap the student once on the head. The teacher does this three times, and on the fourth time taps the desk, but not the student's head. The class is able to see the student's reaction.

II. **Classical Conditional Experiment:**

a) Students will pair up and decide who will be the subject and who will be the experimenter. The subject will sit and relax for 1 minutes. He will then take his pulse for 15 seconds, multiply by four, and record this as his "resting pulse."

b) The experimenter will tap a pencil five times on the desk and immediately have the subject stand up and hop on one leg for 15 seconds. He will take his pulse rate again, quadruple it and record it as "Hop #1." The student will then rest for 1 minute.

c) This procedure will be repeated __four__ more times, and data recorded each time.

d) Now the subject will sit and relax until his pulse returns to the initial resting pulse rate. The experimenter will then tap the pencil five times and the subject will take his pulse without having to hop. He will record the data.

If you are having trouble finding your pulse, or your partner's pulse, as the teacher, or watch this video.

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