CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Conditioning is a form of learning in which either (1) a given stimulus (or signal) becomes increasingly effective in evoking a response or (2) a response occurs with increasing regularity in a well-specified and stable environment. The type of reinforcement used will determine the outcome.

Detailed explanation-2: -The principles of classical conditioning help understand the classical conditioning process. Those principles are: acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, stimulus generalization, and stimulus discrimination.

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, whenever you come home wearing a baseball cap, you take your child to the park to play. So, whenever your child sees you come home with a baseball cap, he is excited because he has associated your baseball cap with a trip to the park. This learning by association is classical conditioning.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Pavlov, conditioning does not involve the acquisition of any new behavior, but rather the tendency to respond in old ways to new stimuli. Thus, he theorized that the CS merely substitutes for the US in evoking the reflex response. This explanation is called the stimulus-substitution theory of conditioning.