Classical Conditioning

A topic within Behavioural Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

Reading on Classical Conditioning

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Pavlovian Conditioning: It's Not What You Think It Is

Robert A. Rescorla

Argues that decades of research show classical conditioning is not a primitive, automatic stimulus-substitution reflex but a sophisticated process by which animals learn the causal structure of their environment.

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Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex

Ivan P. Pavlov

A neutral stimulus repeatedly paired with an unconditioned one comes to trigger the same reflex on its own, laid out through the experiments that founded the study of learned association.

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Reading on Classical Conditioning

Pavlovian Conditioning: It's Not What You Think It Is

Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex

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