LEARNING
OPERANT CONDITIONING
Question
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running away to avoid balloons
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showing fear and trembling when balloons are presented
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being very passive before the conditioning process began
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being very sad and clinging to adults at the conclusion of the conditioning
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Detailed explanation-1: -Classical conditioning refers to learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus (e.g., a tone) becomes associated with a stimulus (e.g., food) that naturally produces a behaviour. After the association is learned, the previously neutral stimulus is sufficient to produce the behaviour.
Detailed explanation-2: -Associative learning occurs when an organism makes connections between stimuli or events that occur together in the environment. In classical conditioning, the stimulus or experience occurs before the behavior and then gets paired with the behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -Operant conditioning is a type of associative learning that focuses on consequences that follow a response that we make and whether it makes a behavior more or less likely to occur in the future. Return to our discussion of operant behaviors from Section 6.1. 2.
Detailed explanation-4: -classical conditioning is based on an association between two stimuli, whereas operant conditioning occurs when a behavior is associated with its consequences.