Da'wah Project.

Assalamualaikum people. A new week comes with a new assignment as our beloved Madam Lihanna entrusted us to do a sort of Islamic approach to change a behaviour. So called Da'wah Project.

Here's the thing, we will set the targeted group/individual behaviour and come out with possible intervention to get their behaviour's right.The intervention could be any means based on Islamic values. Also, a pre-intervention and post-Intervention will takes into account to see the improvement over times. At the end of the day, a systematic report on  how this project being countered got to be produced to be presented. We hope it can give benefits and ideas to you in refinement towards a better behaviour, for us to live a happy life.

IDEA
After several minutes of discussion among group members, we decided to do health awareness among students in IIUM.

Target behaviour: students who likely to spend their weekends by sleeping till noon.

Target group: IIUM students

The plan is to gather 10-15 students who are likely love to spend their weekends in the room. The intervention is done by exercise together and  discussion on health facts among students.

>>>>keep in touch to see the project's progress :)

Short story presentation.

Classical Conditioning

Assalamualaikum. Hai our beloved readers! This post is about what we've had learned on 5th and 7th March.Our lecturer had shared her 'ilm on Classical Conditioning.

Classical Conditioning had been proposed by Ivan Pavlov which involved a dog and of course, its saliva. Pavlov identified basic components in this classical conditioning model.

Neutral Stimulus -  stimulus to which organism doesn't respond in any noticeable way.

Unconditioned Stimulus - the stimulus that naturally and instinctively elicits the target response, which, in the case of his classic experiment is the meat powder.  

Conditioned Stimulus - the stimulus that comes to elicit the target response, which was the tone in Pavlov’s experiment. 

Unconditioned and Conditioned responses - are a little trickier to identify in that they are often the exact same behavior.

Example for classical conditioning;

 A kid in the kitchen who doesn't  care there is a pan on the stove. 

His mum preheating the pan and ask him not to touch the pan.

He's being curious, and touch it.

Experiencing the burn on his palm.

The next time he see pan on the stove, he wont touch it even though its not been heated.

or

This classic example of classical conditioning,

After explanation from our lecturer, she ask each group to create a story which involves a basic components of classical conditioning and associative bias, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization,stimulus discrimination. So we have come out with Kamal's story. This story will be presented in class tomorrow. So for those who are not able to see us presenting in the class, you can read it here. We hope it will give some information to you what is Classical conditioning. Have fun and enjoy Kamal's story :D

By: Puteri Hazwani Nor Bakri

Kamal's Story

I'm Kamal Adli

This story is about Kamal Adli, a 12 years old boy. He is a good student and respects their parents. He is the eldest of five siblings. Each day, he will bring food cooked by his mother to school. Since before, his mother has always prepared food for him to eat during break. One day, Kamal left his food at home. So, he decided went to the canteen to buy food. Before this, he never felt excited buy the food there. 

After trying the food once, he started to like it. He sees the food being sold very tasty, smell nice, mouth start to watering and attractive. Since then,, every time he went to the canteen the smell of aroma of the food, he began to feel hungry and swallowed his saliva. After that, Kamal often went to school without bringing the food that his mother had prepared. He feels that the foods in the canteen are more appetizing and yummy. Furthermore, he notices that the aunty who cook the food at the canteen is very skillful and cook very well compared to his mother. Every time he heard the sound of the canteen or regardless the sound of the cooking t the canteen he will started to salivate. 

But days are not always bright, as one day, Kamal got food poisoning as a result of eating food prepared from the canteen. He was detained in the hospital for several days. He suffered food poisoning not only once, but quite a few times. Since then, he was determined not to eat in the canteen again. Every time he walks in the canteen, he has no desire to buy food from there anymore. When his friends invite him to go anywhere, he will bring food cooked by his mother even when they went to a restaurant.  As for him, all food that is not prepared by his mother is not safe to eat. Kamal was afraid having to suffer food poisoning again.

After completion of his primary school, he went to secondary school near his house. In the new school, the canteen is very large that there are many food choices and much more interesting than in the primary school. So, at first Kamal was tempted to try the food there, even though he brought food from home like he always do before. He suddenly feels the urge to try food prepared from the canteen. His stomach began growling and his mouth swallowing saliva. Kamal started to not carry food from home and buy food from the canteen again.

But one day, Kamal’s classmate name Amir suffered from food poisoning. Kamal began to remember the events on how he suffered food poisoning before. Since then, he completely stopped to buy food from the canteen after that even though he did not know the cause of the food poisoning suffered by his friend. He also will feel scared when every time he sees the aunty who cook at the canteen or outside the canteen. It kind of traumatic. In addition, every time he sees the canteen, he also will feel scared and after that he never going to the canteen or any restaurant.

BY: SET