classical conditioning
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- /ˈklæsɪkəl kənˈdɪʃənɪŋ/
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condicionamiento clásico
- Classical conditioning explains why the smell of cookies baking can trigger happy memories of childhood for many people.
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- classical conditioning and operant
An increase in strength learn fear, classical conditioning.
- An increase in strength learn fear, classical conditioning.
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One reason for the findings that Linz et al. (1984) discussed is in terms of classical conditioning.
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Delayed eyeblink classical conditioning was performed on a custom-made head-fixed eyeblink conditioning apparatus.
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The development of animal models for the classical conditioning of drug effects greatly expanded research in this area.
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A dog can learn to enjoy both handling and petting through the use of classical conditioning.
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The dog brain is more complex still, and dogs were used by Ivan Pavlov in his experiments on classical conditioning.
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Procedural learning encompasses motor skills, perceptual skills, cognitive skills, habit formation, classical conditioning, and priming, and has been referred to in the literature as nondeclarative memory, which in some cases is also called implicit memory.
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In classical conditioning, a bell can be used to signal that food is coming, leading the dog to salivate whenever it hears the bell.
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During classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus, like a sound, is paired repeatedly with food, causing a reflexive response.
Synonyms
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A way a person or animal learns to respond to a signal like a sound
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Knowing 'conditioning' as learning through stimulus association and 'classical' as a type or tradition will allow a B1 learner to infer that this is a particular kind of learned response, so the general idea is accessible. However, the specific Pavlovian mechanism (neutral stimulus paired with an unconditioned stimulus producing a reflex) is technical and not predictable from the constituents alone, making the term only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase classical conditioning comes from Ivan Pavlov's famous experiments with dogs: he rang a bell before giving food, and the dogs soon began to salivate at the bell alone. So classical conditioning means a kind of learning when something that did not cause a reaction before becomes 'connected' to a natural reaction, so the new thing makes the same response.