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.
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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.
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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
built on itreinforcement and punishmentbecause The same dot point contrasts the three phases of classical conditioning with the three phases of operant conditioning.
built on itmultimodal systems of knowledgebecause Behaviourist approaches are the individual-response contrast case
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