Pavlov's classical conditioning has found numerous applications: in behavioral therapy, across experimental and clinical environments, in educational classrooms as well as in treating phobias using systematic desensitisation.
The dark leaves us feeling vulnerable and exposed to whatever is around us that we can't see.
When kids go to bed, they have fewer distractions to preoccupy their minds, so instead their imagination runs wild.
As a result, a shadow in a dark corner can quickly turn into a 5-headed monster coming to get them.
Discovered by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, classical conditioning is a type of unconscious or automatic learning.
This learning process creates a conditioned response through associations between an unconditioned stimulus and a neutral stimulus.
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