CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Classical Conditioning

Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning (Pavlovian conditioning also defendant or reinforcement of Pavlov) is the form of associative learning was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov (1927). Typical procedure for inducing classical conditioning involves presentations of the neutral stimulus with the stimulus of some importance. Neutral stimulus could be any event that does not result in an open response from behavior of organism under investigation. Pavlov referred to this as the conditioned stimulus (CS). By contrast, presentation of significant stimulus necessarily evokes an innate response, often reflective. Pavlov called these unconditioned stimulus (U.S.) and unconditioned response (UR), respectively. If CS-US are repeatedly ...