Pavlovian conditioning
Noun
Meaning
Pavlovian conditioning (uncountable)
(psychology) classical conditioning
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Respondent behaviors are elicited by stimuli, and may be modified through respondent conditioning, which is often called "Pavlovian conditioning" or " classical conditioning ", in which a neutral stimulus is paired with an eliciting stimulus.
For example, animals evolved Pavlovian conditioning in order to solve problems about causal relationships.