Classical conditioning

• Developed in 1900s by Pavlov studying how dogs salivation helps them to digest food when he noticed they would always salivate before they got food
• Pavlov dog stimulus distribution

  Food (UCS) triggers Salivation (UCR)

  Food paired with Bell --> bell (NS) becomes (CS)

  Bell trigger salivation
• Principle of classical conditioning

  • Generalisation
  • Discrimination
  • Extinction
  • Spontaneous recovery
  • Higher order conditioning