Classical Conditioning explained by Pavlov.

1. CLASSICAL
CONDITIONING
P A V L O V ’ S E X P E R I M E N T
Pisharody Manoj Balakrishnan (33)
Prateek Gupta (36)
Priyanka Pillai (38)
Samuel Deepak Srinivasan (44)

2. WHAT IS CONDITIONING?

3. CONDITIONING IS…
• Learning which has been acquired
through experience.
“It is not accidental that all phenomena of
human life are dominated by the search for
daily bread, the oldest link connecting all
living things, man included, surrounding
nature.”

4. WHAT IS CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?
• Classical Conditioning can be defined as a type of
learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to
evoke a reflexive response that was originally evoked
by a different stimulus.
• This occurs when the two stimuli have been
associated with each other.

5. KEY CONCEPTS OF CLASSICAL
CONDITIONING
• Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) : A stimulus that elicits a
response without conditioning.
• Unconditioned Response (UCR) : Automatic response
elicited by the unconditioned stimulus.
• Conditioned Stimulus (CS) : A neutral stimulus that when
paired with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) elicits a similar
response.
• Conditioned Response (CR) : A response that is learned by
pairing the originally neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) with
the unconditioned stimulus (UCS).

6. Let’s watch a video...

7. IVAN PAVLOV
IVAN PAVLOV
•Born on September 14, 1849
•In 1875 received the degree of
Candidate of Natural Sciences.
•He was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Physiology or Medicine in
1904 for his work on digestive
secretions.
•Died Feb. 27, 1936

8. Don’t become a mere
recorder of facts, but try to
penetrate the mystery of
their origin.

9. PAVLOV’S EXPERIMENT

10. CONDITIONING EXERCISE:
• Close your eyes.
• Think about your favorite food.
• Is your mouth watering?
• If so, it’s because you are conditioned.

12. TYPES OF CONDITIONING
• Forward
• Simultaneous
• Second order and higher order
• Backward
• Temporal
• Zero contingency
• Extinction
• Blocking

13. KEY PROCESSES INVOLVED
• Acquisition
• External Inhibition
• Recovery from extinction
• Stimulus generalization
• Stimulus discrimination
• Latent inhibition
• Conditional suppression
• Conditioned inhibition

14. THEORIES
• Data sources
• Stimulus substitution
• R-W model :
ΔV= αβ(λ − ΣV)
• Comparator & computational

15. APPLICATIONS
P A V L O V ’ S E X P E R I M E N T

16. NEURAL BASIS OF LEARNING AND
MEMORY

17. CONDITIONED HUNGER

18. BEHAVIOURAL THERAPIES
Flooding
Aversion therapy
Systematic
desensitization

19. CONDITIONAL DRUG RESPONSE

21. CONDITIONAL EMOTIONAL
RESPONSE

22. Some more
applications…

23. THE AXE EFFECT

24. ENTERTAINMENT

25. EMOTIONAL LABOUR

26. AT RESTAURANT

27. CONCLUSION
• According to Pavlov, conditioned reflexes were
temporary or unstable.
• Pavlov himself said that it is not an ideal education
theory.
• Classical conditioning is not a change in the
behaviour but a similar response to a different
stimulus.
• Classical conditioning = Ineffective for classroom
purposes.

28. JOHN WATSON’S LITTLE ALBERT
EXPERIMENT

29. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning
• http://psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsyhol
ogy/a/classcond.htm
• http://www.youtube.com (For content)

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