What is Learning and Classical Conditioning?
Learning has been defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs due to experience and practice and is not a result of the organism’s temporary state or maturation. Behavioral psychologists study learning in terms of stimulus-response relationships. A person who sees a spider and hears a loud noise at the same time would scream out of fear of the loud noise. However, the person would also develop a long term fear of spiders because it was associated with the fearful loud noise. document.getElementById(‘adsense_placeholder_2’).innerHTML = document.getElementById(‘adsense_ad_2_hidden’).innerHTML; This is an example of a type of learning known as Classical Conditioning, a concept that was developed by Ivan Pavlov in 1927. Here, two stimuli are paired together to bring about a response to a stimulus that previously did not emit that type of behavior. What is Operant Conditioning? However, not all patterns of behavior have been learnt by combining stimuli. How did people l
