Classical Conditioning

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Classical conditioning, a way to spray your friends with a water bottle and call it science. Ivan Pavlov (accidentally) discovered classical conditioning when he was testing a theory that dogs does not need to learn. He tested this theory by using dog food for the unconditioned stimulus (natural stimulant) and the saliva from the dog as the unconditioned response (innate behavior). As a result of the unconditioned stimulus, the dog associates the lab assistant with the food that the assistant feeds him with. This led the assistant to change from a neutral stimulus (does not cause a response), to a conditioned stimulus (neutral stimuli becomes associated with the unconditioned stimulus). This would cause the dog to salivate every time the

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