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Respondent behaviours: controlled (elicited) by antecedent stimuli. Defining respondent conditioning unconditioned responses/unconditioned stimuli. Ur is a natural reflexive action of body that occurs when us is present. Respondent conditioning occurs when a previously neutral stimulus (ns) is paired with us as a result, ns becomes a conditioned stimulus (cs) and elicits conditioned response (cr) similar to the ur. Ur or cr is called a respondent behaviour. Respondent conditioning is also called classical conditioning or pavlovian conditioning. Pavlov dogs salivated when meat powder was placed in their mouths (us will elicit ur) Then, presented ns (sound of metronome) just before he put meat powder in dog"s mouth a number of times, then just the sound by itself. Dog still salivated to sound of metronome (became a cs b/c it was paired a number of times with the meat) Any stimulus can become cs if it"s paired a number of times with us.
