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Pavlov Classical Conditioning

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In this cartoon, Pavlov is ringing a bell to a cat who is thinking "dream on, buddy". Pavlov, a behavioral psychologist, realized that dogs salivate when food is put in their mouth. Realizing the implications this could have, he began experimenting with when the dog would begin to salivate and what would cause it to. In order to figure this out, Pavlov sounded a tone and then immediately gave them food. After several pairings of the tone and the food, the dogs began to salivate on hearing the tone alone. This discovery founded the basis of classical conditioning, a type of learning in which one pairs a stimuli with a certain response. In classical conditioning, you have an unconditioned stimulus (the food), a neutral stimulus (the bell), an
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