PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Lightning
16 Feb 2018
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Pavlonian condition - another word for this due to ivan pavlov. Discovered that dogs salivate before food even enters their mouth as if it was an early step in the process of digestion was triggered even before the food stimulus arrived. He got a dog used to feeding after the sound of a metronome. Before, the sound of this had no effect on the dog. But after the dog got used to feeding after the sound, it began to salivate every time it heard this sound because the idea of food would come to mind and this was what the brain got used too. Pavlov was technically studying a contingent relationship: the presentation of one stimulus reliably leads to the presentation of another. Ex; you see a flash of lightning before the crash of thunder. When an organism learns the association between a signal and an event, we say that a contingent relationship has formed between the two stimuli.
