PY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning
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Chapter six, lesson two: through classical conditioning, we learn that stimuli are related, ivan pavlov, a russian physiologist who won a nobel peace prize in. Pavlov called the salivation elicited by food the unconditioned response. The response is unconditioned response, because it is unlearned behavior like any simple reflex: step 2: a neutral stimulus is presented. The neutral stimulus can be anything that the dog can see or hear, but it must not be associated with the ur. Pavlov used a metronome as the neutral stimulus. The metronome is a device that helps musicians keep time to music by making rhythmic clicking sounds, but it does not cause salivation: step 3: called the conditioning trials. Now the neutral stimulus is presented along with the unconditioned stimulus that reliably produces the unconditioned response. Recall that the unconditioned stimulus here was the food, and the neutral stimulus was the clicking of metronome.
