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Classical Conditioning

A neutral stimulus gets paired with something that already produces a reflex, over and over, until the neutral stimulus produces the reflex on its own. The learner is passive throughout — this is learning that happens to you. This is the real knowscape from knowhere, not a picture of one. Drag it. Watch what actually changes.

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Conditioning works like a doorbell at a party.

Behaviour changes because of what happened last time. Every model here is a different account of how the last time gets in.

The room sits flat — a random doorbell means nothing, nobody moves for it.

Each buzz pairs with pizza arriving, so the sound and the rush link up.

Now the bell alone spikes the whole room — response learned.

what examiners catch — Students forget that the learner is passive or confuse the order of pairing, mixing up which stimulus comes first or which is neutral versus unconditioned.
what you leave with

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what's underneath

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this conceptclassical conditioningLearning occurs when a neutral stimulus acquires the power to trigger a reflex by being repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus that naturally triggers that reflex.
built on itoperant conditioningbecause operant is sharpest in contrast with classical
the rest of learning

4 more, same treatment.

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multimodal systems of knowledgein the appobservational learningin the appoperant conditioningin the appreinforcement and punishmentin the app
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