Classical Conditioning

Classical Conditioning: The theory that a subject can be trained to produce a response when triggered by a conditioned stimulus.

How it works

• You take two things things that are naturally connected
• For example, if a dog sees food it salivates
• Stimulus (food) ---> response (salivation)
• The stimulus and response are unconditioned
• Unconditioned: innate, natural, unlearned

how it works cont.

• Then, you add a conditioned stimlus
• Conditioned: something you try to connect, bond,  associate
• The subject begins to associate the response to both stimuli
• Remove the unconditioned stimulus
• Then, the conditioned stimulus will produce the same response

dog example

• food ---> salivate
• bell, food ---> salivate
• bell ---> salivate
• The conditioned stimulus produces a conditioned response
• The response is conditioned because it wouldn't naturally occur

Review

• Unconditioned stimulus --> Unconditioned Response
• Conditioned stimulus + Unconditioned S --> Unconditioned Reponse
• Conditioned Stimulus --> Conditioned Response
• You begin with an existing relationship and then add a new thing.
• You remove the existing stimulus once the new thing can evoke a response