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Briefly describe the processes of classical conditioning. What are the main implications for the explanation and control of human behaviour?
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Kathryn Perkin First year psychology essay, Semester one David Spicer group 1 Briefly describe the processes of classical conditioning. What are the main implications for the explanation and control of human behaviour? I. P. Pavlov (1902-1928) discovered classical conditioning whilst he was actually investigating the gastro - intestinal system of dogs. He realised that events that had previously had no effect or relationship to a certain reflex on a dog through time and training could trigger a reflex. This is the basis of classical conditioning. There are four main elements of classical conditioning. These are: -Unconditioned Stimulus -Unconditioned Response -Conditioned Stimulus -Conditioned Response An unconditioned Stimulus is a natural stimulus, which causes the natural unconditioned response. Then as I just explained there are conditioned stimuli which in time and learning causes conditioned responses. This can be explained simply as follows. When a dog eats it salivates. The eating of the food is the unconditioned stimulus and the salivating is...
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