Classical conditioning
Explanation:
Classical conditioning (or Pavlovian conditioning) is one of the introductory subjects studied in the psychology career, and is one of the basic principles of learning.
Therefore, surely all psychologists and teachers have knowledge about their importance in associative learning or in the formation of pathologies such as phobias. There are few who do not know Ivan Pavlov and his experiments with dogs. For those who still don't know him, we explain his theory in detail below.
One of the most important characteristics of this type of learning is that it implies automatic or reflex responses, not voluntary behaviors (as opposed to operant or instrumental conditioning). It was called "classical conditioning" to the creation of a connection between a new stimulus and an existing reflex, therefore, it is a type of learning according to which an originally neutral stimulus, which does not cause a response, becomes able to provoke it thanks to the associative connection of this stimulus with the stimulus that normally provokes such response.
Classical conditioning laid the foundations of behaviorism, one of the most important schools of psychology, and was born as a result of Pavlov studies, a Russian psychologist who was interested in the physiology of digestion, especially in salivation reflexes in dogs.
