Classical+Conditioning

Definition:
A type of learning through which an organism learns to associate one stimulus with another. Gen Psych, Chapter 5, p. 137

Examples:
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Classical Conditioning was first demonstrated by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. He paired the neutral stimulus of a ringing bell with the positive unconditional stimulus of food repeatedly. Eventually just the sound of the ringing bell caused the dog to salivate. In this example the ringing bell had become a conditional stimulus once it took on the association with food.

If you are trying to teach a dog to shake in response to a verbal command, you can say the response has been acquired as soon as the dog shakes in response to only the verbal command. Once the response has been acquired, you can gradually reinforce the shake response to make sure the behavior is well learned.

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Pavlov's Cockroach: Classical Conditioning Of Salivation In An Insect "A new #|study, led by Makoto Mizunami and Colleagues at Tohoku University in Japan, demonstrates classical conditioning of salivation in cockroaches, for the first time in species other than dogs and humans, and its underlying neural mechanisms remain elusive because of the complexity of the mammalian brain."

[] This article is about music and how it can affect your performance with anything. For an example, before a big race or anything you can listen to a song to help you get pumped up. This would by the neutral stimulus with a meaningful stimulus to revoke a response and eventually if you keep listening to the same song so eventually the neutral stimulus can result in the same response with a meaningful stimulus.

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