CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was it that showed that a a reflex that responds to a natural stimulus could also be trained to respond to a neutral stimulus?
A
Ivan Pavlov
B
Sigmund Freud
C
BF Skinner
D
Watson Weatherly
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Pavlov introduced the ringing of the bell as a neutral stimulus. An unconditioned stimulus is a stimulus that leads to an automatic response. In Pavlov’s experiment, the food was the unconditioned stimulus. An unconditioned response is an automatic response to a stimulus.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ivan Pavlov is credited with the classical conditioning paradigm. Classical conditioning focuses the process of learning by which new behaviors are acquired via repeated pairings with unconditioned stimuli and responses.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ivan Pavlov studied the behavior of dogs and developed a theory of classical conditioning, which explains how people associate two stimuli in their minds and react to one of them as though it was the other.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pavlov performed ingenious experiments and showed that autonomic reflexes, such as salivation when the hungry animal saw food, could be modified in such a way that they emerged in response to a new, conditional, stimulus.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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