This meant that his reflex to food was different from the reflex to ring a bell. Phase Three: During Conditioning What Pavlov did was ring the bell and at the same time present the food to the dog. Step Four: After Conditioning After conditioning, the dog started drooling just at the bell, meaning that the idea of classical conditioning had more evidence of its truth. Real life example A boy asked his mother for chocolate at the supermarket and the mother said "No", but the boy started crying. This leads his mother to give up and give him the chocolate he wanted. The boy has made the connection in his brain, if he cries every time he can get what he wants. The two stimuli in this example are repeatedly asking his mother and taking the candy. This creates a connection in the brain that leads him to ask his mother next time. Operant Conditioning Operant conditioning is the idea of understanding the relationships between a response and the consequences of the response. This idea also pertains to positive and negative reinforcement. B.F. Skinner is best known for operant conditioning because he is known as a major leader in behaviorist psychology. It was known that BF's work was based on Thorndike (who wrote the book "Law and
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