Behavioral Learning Theories
11th Grade · Psychology · 40 min
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Learning Objective
I can summarize the key principles of behavioral learning theories.
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Ivan Pavlov's experiments are among the most famous in the history of psychology and contributed to the foundation of the behaviorist school of thought.
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In classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus is paired with the neutral stimulus during conditioning until the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus eliciting a conditioned response.
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Operant conditioning involves associating our own behavior with consequences, where behaviors increase when followed by reinforcement or reward, but decrease when followed by punishment.
