Probably because it was the first kind of conditioning to be demonstrated and studied. See Pavlov As eluded to above, classical conditioning is called such because it was the first kind of...
Classical conditioning was started by Ivan Pavlov, a psychologist. He used dogs to prove that a being can be conditioned to do something, this means that they learn to do something when one things...
There are two types of conditioning covered in Psychology 101. Are you *sure* that you don't mean *Operant*Conditioning? Operant and Classical conditioning were and continue to be fundamental...
Im not really sure about the strengths, but 2 of the limitations are that all responses must involve a reflex, therefore what can be learnt is limited. Also, it is difficult to condition infants on...
If a teacher rings a bell every day before snack time, the child will begin to associate the sound of the bell with food. after a while the child will start to feel hungry after merely hearing the...