P A V L O V ’ S E X P E R I M E N T

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Pisharody Manoj Balakrishnan (33) Prateek Gupta (36)Priyanka Pillai (38)

Samuel Deepak Srinivasan (44)

WHAT IS CONDITIONING?

CONDITIONING IS…

•Learning which has been acquired through experience.

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nature.”

WHAT IS CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?

• Classical Conditioning can be defined as a type of

learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to

evoke a reflexive response that was originally evoked

by a different stimulus.

• This occurs when the two stimuli have been

associated with each other.

KEY CONCEPTS OF CLASSICAL

CONDITIONING

• Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) : A stimulus that elicits a response without conditioning.

• Unconditioned Response (UCR) : Automatic response elicited by the unconditioned stimulus.

• Conditioned Stimulus (CS) : A neutral stimulus that when paired with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) elicits a similar response.

• Conditioned Response (CR) : A response that is learned by pairing the originally neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) with the unconditioned stimulus (UCS).

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IVAN PAVLOV

IVAN PAVLOV

•Born on September 14, 1849

•In 1875 received the degree of

Candidate of Natural Sciences.

•He was awarded the Nobel Prize

for Physiology or Medicine in

1904 for his work on digestive

secretions.

•Died Feb. 27, 1936

Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to

penetrate the mystery of their origin.

PAVLOV’S EXPERIMENT

CONDITIONING EXERCISE:

• Close your eyes.

• Think about your favorite food.

• Is your mouth watering?

• If so, it’s because you are conditioned.

TYPES OF CONDITIONING

• Forward

• Simultaneous

• Second order and higher order

• Backward

• Temporal

• Zero contingency

• Extinction

• Blocking

KEY PROCESSES INVOLVED

• Acquisition

• External Inhibition

• Recovery from extinction

• Stimulus generalization

• Stimulus discrimination

• Latent inhibition

• Conditional suppression

• Conditioned inhibition

THEORIES

• Data sources

• Stimulus substitution

• R-W model :

• Comparator & computational

∆V= αβ(λ − ΣV)

APPLICATIONSPAVLOV’S EXPERIMENT

NEURAL BASIS OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

CONDITIONED HUNGER

BEHAVIOURAL THERAPIES

Flooding

Aversion therapy

Systematic

desensitization

CONDITIONAL DRUG RESPONSE

CONDITIONAL EMOTIONAL RESPONSE

Some more

applications…

THE AXE EFFECT

ENTERTAINMENT

EMOTIONAL LABOUR

AT RESTAURANT

CONCLUSION

• According to Pavlov, conditioned reflexes were

temporary or unstable.

• Pavlov himself said that it is not an ideal education

theory.

• Classical conditioning is not a change in the

behaviour but a similar response to a different

stimulus.

• Classical conditioning = Ineffective for classroom

purposes.

JOHN WATSON’S LITTLE ALBERT EXPERIMENT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning

• http://psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsyhol

ogy/a/classcond.htm

• http://www.youtube.com (For content)

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