... dog, the unconditioned response is fear, the conditioned stimulus is the house, and the conditioned response is avoidance of the house. Operant conditioning is the learning process in which the likelihood of a particular behavior occurring is determined by the consequences of that behavior. It is based on the assumption that a person or animal will tend to repeat behavior that brings forth a positive ... a training period, the rat will show the conditioned response of pressing the lever even without the presence of the unconditioned stimulus of the food. Observational learning occurs wh...

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... theory was founded by Ivan Pavlov an is one form of learning in which an organism "learns" through establishing associations between different events and stimuli. For example, when a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus which produces some involuntary bodily response all on its own the neutral stimulus begins to trigger a response by the organism similar to that produced by the unconditioned ... stimulus. In this way, the organism has "learned" that the neutral stimulus equals something good (just like the unconditioned stimulus). An example is Ivan Pavlov's experim...

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... with the US. Responses are subsequently weakened if they are not reinforced, but they may reappear after a pause, response may be triggered by stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus, but not by a dissimilar stimuli. The behaviorists optimism that learning principles would generalize from one response to another and from one species to another has been tempered. ... Conditioning principles we know are cognitively and biologically constrained. In classical conditioning, animals learn when to expect an unconditioned stimulus. Moreover biological predispositions make learning some assoc...

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