A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response which is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.
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- A process of classical conditioning results in these representations of moral transgressions becoming triggers for the mechanism.
- Other investigators have searched the biological substrates of classical conditioning for insight into understanding symptomatic behaviour.
- Many of these studies seem to ignore what has traditionally been seen as a fundamental difference between two types of learning: classical conditioning and instrumental learning.
- This caused them to learn a new association between the odor and the shock - a type of learning called classical conditioning.
- The unconditioned stimulus in a classical conditioning experiment must occur before the reward for the stimulus-reward association to occur.