Psychology › Section F · Learning › Topic F.2
Classical conditioning
Why does the smell of a dentist's surgery make some people tense before anything has happened? Classical conditioning explains how a once-meaningless signal comes to trigger an automatic response, and it underlies many everyday fears, cravings and aversions.
In this topic
- Pavlov's accidental discovery
- The five terms
- Acquisition and timing
- Extinction and spontaneous recovery
- Generalisation and discrimination
- Worked example: naming the parts
- Biology limits what is learned
- Worked example: a one-trial aversion
- Little Albert: what was shown, and its problems
- Undoing fear and other applications
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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