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What is classical conditioning?

What is classical conditioning? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (psychology) A learning process in which a previously neutral stimulus (such as a bell) is paired with a potent stimulus (such as food in the case of a dog), so that the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response (salivation) similar to the one elicited by the potent stimulus.
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The device was named after Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, famous for his 1918 work in classical conditioning.
Yet one theory seeks to explain imprinting in terms of simple classical conditioning.
Moreover, timing is much less critical than in classical conditioning.
The associative mechanism can serve as an example of Pavlovian classical conditioning.
Other investigators have searched the biological substrates of classical conditioning for insight into understanding symptomatic behaviour.
The newly discovered brain cell was tested using classical conditioning.

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