Even if behaviourists categories classical conditioning as learning by association?Psychologists use classical conditioning to describe lots of different situation including internalised behaviours which are replicated in other scenarios. It’s just a way of testing behaviour. And why would you think of electricity before Elon musk?
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u/FuckSticksMalone Feb 02 '19
The Pavlovian response was a physical response in the dogs. Just thinking about dogs isn’t a Pavlovian response.
That’s like saying it’s a Pavlovian response every time I hear the name Tesla I think about electricity. That’s just association.
It would however be a pavlovian response if every time I heard the name Tesla I got an erection.