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Classical Conditioning

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During classical conditioning, organisms learn to associate events and stimuli that repeatedly happen together. Classical conditioning is something that we experience throughout our lives on a daily basis. For example, one form of classical conditioning is taste aversion. I had an experience with taste aversion when I ate spaghetti and felt ill and nauseous afterwards. Though I had the stomach flu and it had nothing to do with the food I ate, I still associated spaghetti with that feeling of nausea. Now, to this day, I will not eat spaghetti. Classical conditioning is the process by which we learn to associate stimuli and to anticipate events to follow. Pavlov is most commonly associate with classical conditioning because of the extensive research
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