LEARNING
LEARNING PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS
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occurs when an individual’s old response becomes attached to a new stimulus
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learning that occurs as a result of the consequences of behavior
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the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response
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studied salivation responses in dogs
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conditioned an 11-month-old boy to fear laboratory rats
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Detailed explanation-1: -Classical conditioning is learning through association and was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov showed that dogs could be conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell if that sound was repeatedly presented at the same time that they were given food.
Detailed explanation-2: -The dogs salivating for food is the unconditioned response in Pavlov’s experiment. A conditioned stimulus is a stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response. In the described experiment, the conditioned stimulus was the ringing of the bell, and the conditioned response was salivation.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was Ivan Pavlov best known for? Ivan Pavlov developed an experiment testing the concept of the conditioned reflex. He trained a hungry dog to salivate at the sound of a metronome or buzzer, which was previously associated with the sight of food.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pavlov’s aim was to use the salivary conditioning method to investigate the function of the brain of higher animals in their adaptation to the external environment.
Detailed explanation-5: -As we just discussed, Pavlov found that when he repeatedly presented the bell (conditioned stimulus) without the meat powder (unconditioned stimulus), extinction occurred; the dogs stopped salivating to the bell.