![]() Operant conditioning refers to how an organism responds to what it’s presented in it’s environment. In the behaviorist learning theory, the learners are passive participants and rely on the teacher transmitting information to the student. This study demonstrated how emotions could become conditioned responses. Watson swapped out the rat with other animals such as a rabbit, a dog, and a fur coat. ![]() The little boy responded with crying, even without the noise. He eventually presented Little Albert with the white rat without the clanging noise. He then presented the boy with the same white rat but added in a loud clanging noise from an iron rod. With his experiment, he presented an 11-month old boy named Albert with a white rat and observed that the boy was not afraid. He wanted to see if the theory of classical conditioning could be applied to fear with humans. Watson (1913) later conducted further research on classical conditioning by experimenting with a child and rat with a controversial experiment called “Little Albert”. Pavlov found that many of our behaviors are paired with a stimulus that we associate learning with. Eventually, the dog would salivate when it heard the bell sound (the stimuli). Every time he fed the dog he would ring a bell. In his research, he began pairing the feeding of the dog with a bell sound. Pavlov decided to change his research to why this happened. After some time the dog started salivating as soon as the person feeding it entered the room. During his experiments, he would place meat powder in the mouth of a dog to see how different organs reacted. Pavlov discovered classical conditioning while studying the digestive patterns in a dog. This changes how we react to the stimuli presented, therefore altering our behavior. Classical conditioning is the idea that when we learn we alter the way we perceive our environment. ![]() Ivan Povlov investigated classical conditioning. Classical conditioning refers to the way we perceive our environment, interpret stimuli and interact or behave. ![]()
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