What are classical conditioning principles?

Answer 1

Classical Conditioning is what Pavlov did in his very famous work with dogs. Pavlov trained his 'subjects' to salivate upon hearing a ringing bell. He took a physiological response (salivating) and "conditioned" it to the ringing of the bell. You can see how easy this would be. Every time he gave his [hungry] subject some food, he rang a bell. Eventually, just ringing the bell was enough to bring about the salivating response. This is distinct from Operant Conditioning, where you can shape behaviors (not physiological responses) by conditioning them to various rewards or punishments. This is basically the kind of process that any animal trainer will use.

Answer 2

Ivan Pavlov was a pioneer of classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning in which a conditioned stimulus is presented along with a stimulus that leads to a certain response. The conditioned or neutral stimulus does not in and of itself result in a specific behavioral response. An example of a conditioned stimulus would be a bell as in Pavlov's famous experiment. An unconditioned stimulus is a stimulus that naturally and in and of itself leads to a certain response; i.e. unconditioned response. The unconditioned stiumulus would be the meat in Pavlov's experiment. In addition, the unconditioned response would be the salivation of the dog. The gist of the experiment was that the dog salivated when the bell rang because ringing the bell was associated with food. After the pairing of the bell and salivation take place now we have achieved a conditioned response, namely the act of salivation. In other words, the neutral stimulus (bell) became a conditioned stimulus as it was paired with an unconditioned stimulus (meat) leading to a conditioned response (salivation).

Answer 3

Classical conditioning is simply the pairing of two unrelated stimuli enough times so that both stimuli evoke the same response.

Example:

In Pavlov's famous experiment with dogs, he started with the information that dogs would salivate when presented with food, but would not salivate at the sound of a bell. However, after numerous pairings of ringing the bell when the dogs were given food eventually the dogs salivated at the sound of the bell alone. We would say the dogs had been (classically) conditioned to salivate at the sound of the bell.

Answer 4

The classical conditioning theory of learning says that learning is based on forming habits. It is a condition of learned responses to various stimuli. One can be taught to do something when one is around a certain stimulus that triggers a response.

Answer 5

S-R theory or Stimulus-Response theory