Leaning & Memory Flashcards

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Who is Ivan Pavlov ?

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A Russian physiologist (person who studies the workings of the body) who discovered classical conditioning through his work on digestion in dogs.

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Classical Conditioning

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Is learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the reflex.

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What is learning?

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  • learning is any relatively permanent change in behavior about by experience or practice.
  • when people learn anything, some part of their brain is physically changed to record what they have learned.
  • any kind of change in the way an organism behaves is learning
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