GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LEARNING THEORIES
Question
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Watson
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Skinner
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Pavlov
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Vygotsky
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Detailed explanation-1: -Classical conditioning was stumbled upon by accident. Pavlov was conducting research on the digestion of dogs when he noticed that the dogs’ physical reactions to food subtly changed over time. At first, the dogs would only salivate when the food was placed in front of them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Classical conditioning (also known as Pavlovian or respondent conditioning) is learning through association and was discovered by Pavlov, a Russian physiologist. In simple terms, two stimuli are linked together to produce a new learned response in a person or animal.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Pavlovian conditioning, also called Classical Conditioning, a type of conditioned learning which occurs because of the subject’s instinctive responses, as opposed to operant conditioning, which is contingent on the willful actions of the subject.