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Classical conditioning

Besides Sigmund Freud, perhaps the most famous name in all of psychology is Ivan Pavlov. The one problem is that he was a biologist, not a psychologist! Pavlov's study with dogs gave us the theory of classical conditioning. This theory of learning argues that when a natural response to a stimulus is paired with a "neutral stimulus," we connect those two stimuli in our mind so that exposure to the neutral stimulus...

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