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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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A process of classical conditioning results in these representations of moral transgressions becoming triggers for the mechanism.
Other investigators have searched the biological substrates of classical conditioning for insight into understanding symptomatic behaviour.
Singleunit analysis of different hippocampal cell types during classical conditioning of rabbit nictitating membrane response.
Moreover, timing is much less critical than in classical conditioning.
This is the realm of classical conditioning, autonomic nervous system functions, and involuntary reactions.
The device was named after Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, famous for his 1918 work in classical conditioning.

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