AQA Psychology classical conditioning

1. He presented food in a bowl to the dog several times, until eventually the dog salivated when the empty bowl was presented. It had been conditioned to salivate to the bowl not just the food. (6, 6)
4. The dogs associated the bell with food so they salivated. Normally a dog would not salivate to a bowl or a bell, but the dogs associated these stimuli with food so they gave that response. (6, 10)
6. to see if the emotional response of fear could be conditioned in a human being (6, 3, 6, 3)

1. The aim of this study was originally to study digestion in dogs, he did not intend to study conditioning. (6, 3)
2. The researcher has control over all variables as it is a lab experiment. So it is easy to repeat each time which means that it is reliable. Low ecological validity as the dogs weren't in their natural environment. (6, 10)
5. a conditioned response dies out. (10)
6. Learning is the process of gaining knowledge and/or changing the behavior as the result. (4, 2, 8)

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