Define Classical Conditioning. Explain Pavlov’s
experiment of training his dog.
Classical Conditioning:
Classical conditioning is a type of learning that happens automatically.
When you learn through classical conditioning, an automatic
conditioned response is paired with a specific stimulus.
Experiment:
Pavlov dogs experiment played a critical role in the discovery of
classical conditioning. While quite by famous experiment had a major
impact on our understanding of how learning takes place.
Classical conditioning sometime called Pavlovian conditioning.
Pavlov suggested that salivation was a learn response,
Pavlov then focused on investigating exactly how these conditioned
responses are learned or acquired. In a series of experiments, he set out
to provoke a conditioned response to a previously neutral stimulus. He
opted to use food as the unconditioned stimulus, or the stimulus that
evokes a response naturally and automatically.
The sound of a bell was chosen to be the neutral stimulus. The dogs
would first be exposed to the sound of the bell, and then the food was
immediately presented.
After several conditioning trials, Pavlov noted that the dogs began to
salivate after hearing the sound of bell. "A stimulus which was neutral in
and of itself had been superimposed upon the action of the inborn
alimentary reflex," Pavlov wrote of the results.
experiment of training his dog.
Classical Conditioning:
Classical conditioning is a type of learning that happens automatically.
When you learn through classical conditioning, an automatic
conditioned response is paired with a specific stimulus.
Experiment:
Pavlov dogs experiment played a critical role in the discovery of
classical conditioning. While quite by famous experiment had a major
impact on our understanding of how learning takes place.
Classical conditioning sometime called Pavlovian conditioning.
Pavlov suggested that salivation was a learn response,
Pavlov then focused on investigating exactly how these conditioned
responses are learned or acquired. In a series of experiments, he set out
to provoke a conditioned response to a previously neutral stimulus. He
opted to use food as the unconditioned stimulus, or the stimulus that
evokes a response naturally and automatically.
The sound of a bell was chosen to be the neutral stimulus. The dogs
would first be exposed to the sound of the bell, and then the food was
immediately presented.
After several conditioning trials, Pavlov noted that the dogs began to
salivate after hearing the sound of bell. "A stimulus which was neutral in
and of itself had been superimposed upon the action of the inborn
alimentary reflex," Pavlov wrote of the results.
