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conditioning: a standalone construct

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Learning psychology

learning in which a neutral stimulus, paired repeatedly with one that already elicits a reflex, comes to elicit a response.

Learning in which a neutral stimulus, paired repeatedly with a stimulus that already elicits a reflex, comes to elicit a related response on its own. Pavlov set out the account in Conditioned Reflexes (1927): a bell that reliably precedes food comes to trigger salivation, so the animal has learned a relation between two events in the world. The referent is an association formed in one organism, and the unit is the strength of a learned stimulus-response link, not a room's air and not a sensor's output. Rescorla and Wagner (1972) modelled the learning as driven by prediction error, the gap between what was expected and what occurred, and Rescorla (1988) stressed that the animal learns what predicts what, not a reflex stamped in by mere contiguity. What is conditioned here is a response inside a nervous system.[1][2][3]

Unit
A learned association between a stimulus and a reflexive response, in one organism
Recovery means
Spontaneous recovery is a defined phenomenon here: an extinguished conditioned response can reappear after a rest interval
Measured by
Strength, latency, or probability of the conditioned response to the conditioned stimulus

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References

  1. Pavlov, I. P. (1927). Conditioned reflexes: An investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex (G. V. Anrep, Trans.). Oxford University Press.
  2. Rescorla, R. A., & Wagner, A. R. (1972). A theory of Pavlovian conditioning: Variations in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement. In A. H. Black & W. F. Prokasy (Eds.), Classical conditioning II: Current research and theory (pp. 64–99). Appleton-Century-Crofts.
  3. Rescorla, R. A. (1988). Pavlovian conditioning: It's not what you think it is. American Psychologist, 43(3), 151–160. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.43.3.151

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