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Classical Conditioning

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Learning is a process which brings permanent changes in the behavior of a learner through experience or practice.

Early Research

Edward Thorndike: Animal Intelligence (1898)

Studied learning behavior of cats through maze board.

Founded three principles of Stimulus Response Learning:

  • Law of effect: Learning takes place if the learner drives satisfaction and pleasure out of it and if it is not learning doesn՚t take place.
  • Law of exercise: A response that is repeated often enough will tend to continue to occur in the same situation. It emphasizes the need of repetition, practice, and drill work in the process of learning.
  • Law of spread of effect: When an act has…

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Theories of Pavlovian Conditioning

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  • Stimulus-Substitution Theory: Pavlov՚s view that the pairing of the CS and the UCS allows the CS to elicit a CR that was similar in form to the UCR. Theoretically, the CS excites the neural centers for the UCS which then triggers the occurrence of reflexive behavior.
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