The Basic Conditioning Experiment

• Pavlov’s experiment
• What is learned in conditioning?
• Variations on the basic experiment

Methods for Studying Classical Conditioning

• Eyeblink conditioning in rabbits
• Fear conditioning in rats
• Autoshaping in pigeons
• Appetitive conditioning in rats
• Taste aversion learning

Things That Affect the Strength of Conditioning

• Time
• Novelty of the CS and the US
• Intensity of the CS and the US
• Pseudoconditioning and sensitization

Conditioned Inhibition

• How to produce conditioned inhibition
• How to detect conditioned inhibition
• Two methods that do NOT produce true inhibition

Information Value in Conditioning

• CS-US contingencies in classical conditioning
• Blocking and unblocking
• Overshadowing
• Relative validity in conditioning