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Outline Pavlov Classical Conditioning Theory and briefly evaluate it. A Russian psychologist discovered  

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4 October 2005 Word count: 566 words Outline Pavlov Classical Conditioning Theory and briefly evaluate it. A Russian psychologist discovered classical conditioning being a form of learning in 1900's. His name was Ivan Pavlov. Classical conditioning included a reflective or an automatic response that transferred from one stimulus to another. Pavlov's experiments included how the saliva aids to digestive process. He would give the dog a meal for sometime and would record its saliva while the dog ate the meal. Pavlov conditioned the dog to the sound of the bell. During conditioning Pavlov would ring a bell which is neutral stimulus and give food to the dog. It becomes a neutral stimulus because it doesn't produce any salivation response in dog. He would repeat the procedure on several times until he started sounding the bell without food and the dog would salivate to the sound of the bell. The dog would associate the...

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