Learning Theory - Classical Conditioning - Pavlov

• Learning through association

• Revealed that dogs could be conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell if the sound was presented at the same time as the food.
• Dogs learned to associate bell (stimulus) with food (stimulus) - produced salivation response everytime they heard the bell.

• Able to show how a neutral stimulus (bell) can come to elicit a new learned response (conditioned repsonse) through association

MEAT (Unconditioned Stimulus) ------------------------------> SALIVATION (Unconditioned Response)

BELL (Neutral Stimulus) -----------------------------------------> No Salivation

MEAT + BELL ( Unconditioned Stimulus and Conditioned Stimulus) ----------------------------------> Salivation

BELL (Conditioned Stimulus) ------------------------------------> Salivation (Conditioned Response)