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    wondered why your mouth waters when for example the microwave beeps that it is done? Or why your dog gets hyper or drools when he hears you from a far distance yelling dinnertime? The way we learn these things are through a process called Classical Conditioning. It all started when a “Russian physiologist named Ivan Pavlov found that before he fed his dogs, when they smelled, saw the food, or even the person that feeds them, they would slobber. Pavlov figured out that dogs had learned that these…

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    our thoughts and actions. Two types of learning are classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Each conditioning method has a distinct way of invoking a change in the behaviors and actions in a subject. Conditioning is a method of changing a person’s behavior by giving them positive or negative reinforcement for every feat they make until they realize which actions cause rewards and which actions cause negative reactions. Classical conditioning, or Pavlovian…

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    experiences. Two well-supported theories in the psychological community are classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Ivan Pavlov, who discovered having a neutral stimulus presented with an unconditioned stimulus creates an unconditioned response leading to a controlled stimulus making a controlled response, developed classical conditioning. B.F Skinner another well-respected psychologist developed operant conditioning, which is when there is an event and a response and the response can…

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    The Basics of Classical Conditioning are nothing more than, a way of learning a response from a stimulus. We can see this by looking at a stop sign, when you see the stop sign you stop. That is because we a conditioned to stop by the sign. Ivan Pavlov, a Russian Physiologist had been studying Conditioning and well what he came up with is very confusing, so to put in terms that we can all understand no matter your background is like this. " Conditioned is learned, Unconditioned is not learned,…

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    In my paper I am going to explain the theories of operant and classical conditioning. Classical and operant conditioning are two main types of associative learning. Associative learning happens when we form associations or connections, among stimuli and behaviors. Associative learning helps us to foresee the future based on past experience and has survival advantages. For instance, if B happens, then C is more than likely to follow. There are also many other types of associative learning…

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    provoked by my injury due to classical conditioning (4). In terms of classical conditioning, exercising could be considered my unconditioned stimulus (4), which was previously attached to the unconditioned response (4) of happiness; however, the injury, which could be considered the conditioned stimulus (4) in this situation caused the previously enjoyable activity to become associated with anxiety, the conditioned response (4). Also, considering classical conditioning requires repetition,…

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    forms, learning and conditioning. Learning is known as change in information processing and behaviour as a result of experience. The definition of conditioning is a type of learning whereby a specific stimuli elicits a specific response. Conditioning branches into two different types; Classical and Operant conditioning. Classical conditioning involves learning behaviour through the process of association, to which there are three stages with a stimuli and response. Before conditioning the…

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    1) I do believe that learning a new behavior are strictly rooted through classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning and not paired with one another. The way I have interpreted this course is that when a behavior is learned and is measurable in some way, it can be broken down into a fundamental learning process. The argument that I would make is that if there were to be more than one behavior change apparent after an incident, whether it be natural causes, deliberate…

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    Classical Conditioning Classical conditioning is when a neutral stimulus comes to bring about a response after it is paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that stimulus. Operant condition is learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on its favorable consequences. Whether we realize it or not, we tend to be exposed to both classical and operant conditioning on a daily bases. Many examples of both of these conditions can be derived from media.…

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    fully know how these two conditions work, it is important to know how they both function and differ from each other. Most importantly to know the differences, you focus on if the response is natural or unnatural. Classical condition was brought to light by Ivan Pavlov. In classical conditioning , it involves having a neutral sign right before a natural reflex. Ivan Pavlovs famous experiment with the dog's salivation is known all around the psychology world. In the experiment, He seen the dogs…

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