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    which that have been well studied; operant and classical conditioning. Both of these learning models form associations between a stimulus and a response. It is how the association is established that differs the two. Operant conditioning includes reinforcement, where presenting a favorable stimulus reinforces the behavior of an animal. Presenting an aversive stimulus can cause the animal to stop its behavior. One typical experiment that has been replicated many times is a rat pushing on a lever

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    Then, later, the unconditioned stimulus can be withdrawn and the neutral stimulus evolves to become the conditioned stimulus. Now the conditioned stimulus or learned stimulus evokes a conditioned response, or learned response. Given the example, the conditioned response is salivation. When it hears the bell, the dog salivates because the dog was conditioned

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    defined by Richard A. Griggs, is learning that one stimulus signals the arrival of another stimulus. (141) A stimulus is a phenomenon perceived by the senses. When an initial stimulus is presented within a setting, the response to stimulus is referred to as a reflex. A reflex is a natural and automatic response to the initial stimulus without conscious thinking involved. The first encounter of a given stimulus is referred to as an unconditioned stimulus and the reflexive response is the unconditioned

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    behavioral responses (Hockenbury, page 183).” One of the forms of conditioning is called “classical conditioning”. Classical conditioning is defined as “the basic learning process that involves repeatedly pairing a neutral stimulus with a response-producing stimulus until the neutral stimulus elicits the sameresponse (Hockenbury, page 184).” Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist that largely contributed to learning by conducting his classical conditioning experiment observing the use of saliva in digestion

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    process that develops when two stimuli are paired together repeatedly. The first stimulus is an unconditional stimulus, which automatically evokes an unconditioned response, a natural response. The second stimulus is a neutral stimulus, a stimulus that does not elicit a response. Many people associate it with habituation and sensitization, because both of these involve a decrease or an increase to a repeated stimulus, and are classified as simple learning mechanisms, however they differ from classical

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    Conditioning There are two learning processes that are used, classical condition and operant conditioning. One learning process used is classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response. I found two TV commercials that are excellent examples for classical conditioning. The first commercial I found is an Old Spice commercial. The ad starts off with an attractive

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    1b) A stimulus/response is either conditional or unconditional. For a stimulus/response to be unconditional, it must occur naturally without any interference. For example, in Pavlov’s experiment the dog’s natural response to seeing food, the stimulus, is salivating. However; a conditional stimulus/response is not natural. When a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditional stimulus, it elicits a conditional response and the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus. For example, in Pavlov’s

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    Wood, and Boyd 137). Classical conditioning is “a type of learning through which an organism learns to associate one stimulus with another” (Wood, Wood, and Boyd 137). Learning implies that there is at least a semi-permanent change, this change could be demonstrated through behavior for example. In classical conditioning two stimuli are paired together multiple times. A stimulus is “any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds” (Wood, Wood, and Boyd 137). Pavlov, the father

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    becomes associated with a certain stimulus. There are two major types of conditioning - classical and operant. Classical (Pavlovian) conditioning is the process through which a neutral stimulus (NS) becomes connected with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) that elicit certain response naturally. As a result, an initially neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS) that can induce a response individually and independently from an unconditioned stimulus. Pavlov discovered the classical conditioning

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    treat whenever it hears the sound. There are four elements of classical conditioning. These elements of classical conditioning include unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response. These four elements make up the classical conditioning procedure. An unconditioned stimulus in an experiment is a stimulus that elicits a response from the subject of the experiment without any previous conditioning. This can be anything that elicits an instinctual response

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