An example of a classical conditioning in my life is the fact that I wake up to prepare for school when I hear the roar of a school bus coming to pick school going children from the estate I live in. Initially, I would set my alarm to wake me up at 5 am. Coincidentally, the bus would pass by my apartment at the same time. With time, I learnt that the bus usually passes at around 5a.m and whenever I heard the bus roar, I would know that it is time to wake up. With time, I became used to this trend and I would hardly need the alarm to wake me up since I would wake up once I heard the roar of the bus.
In my example above, the unconditioned stimulus is the ringing of the alarm. The conditioned stimulus is the roar of the school bus and the unconditioned response is waking up. The ringing of the alarm is the unconditioned stimulus because it is what I initially used to depend on to wake up. the conditioned stimulus is the roar of the bus because I learnt to associate it with waking up time and waking up is the unconditioned response because it is the biological response triggered by both the unconditioned and conditioned stimulus.
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If I can relate the roar of the bus to the noises of the children as they enter the school bus so that the noises of the children wake me up as well, then I will have achieved higher level conditioning where the noises of the children become the neutral stimulus.
