Blog Post #6 Classical Conditioning

Ivan Pavlov discoverd classical condtioning. Classical conditionening is a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli to anticapted events. An example of classsical conditioning is ringing a bell and emediately have a dog salvitate. Before conditioning, when you offer food to a dog it will immediately start to salvitate, but when you ring a bell it will do nothing in response. During conditioning, you will ring a bell everytime before you serve the dog food. Ater conditioning, everytime you ring the bell the dog will immediately start to salvitate. In this experiment the (US) is the food in the mouth and the (UR) is the salvitation. The tone then becomes the neutral stimulus. After conditioning, the (CR) becomes the learned response or the bell tone and the (CS) is the salvitation which is triggered by the food.