CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Pavlov’s initial interest in classical conditioning was stimulated when he observed his research dogs salivating at
A
the sight of food
B
the attendants’ footsteps
C
Saliva
D
The food dish
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Pavlov’s Interest was stimulated when he observed dogs were responding to the sight of the research attendants, which the animals had come to associate with the presentation of food.

Detailed explanation-2: -(Russia 1849-1936) An initial research interest in the salivary gland in dogs led to the discovery of what is now known as classical conditioning: an unconditioned stimulus associated with an unconditioned response is presented with a conditioned stimulus to create a conditioned response.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The most famous example of classical conditioning was Ivan Pavlov’s experiment with dogs, who salivated in response to a bell tone. Pavlov showed that when a bell was sounded each time the dog was fed, the dog learned to associate the sound with the presentation of the food.

Detailed explanation-5: -Conditioned reflexes consist of a conditioned stimulus (CS), such as the footsteps, producing a conditioned response (CR), salivation. You will notice that the response in both of these examples is salivation, but when the salivation results from hearing footsteps, it is conditioning that produced it.

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