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Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning

  Classical conditioning is a way of learning where a stimulus that triggers a biological response is paired with a new stimulus that then results in the same reaction. The most famous work in classical conditioning was done by Ivan Pavlov in the 1890s. During this time Pavlov did a lot of research on the digestive processes of dogs. One day during his research Pavlov noticed that the dogs began to salivate in the presence of the technician who usually fed them. He wondered if the technician was […]

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