3.01: Classical Conditioning

• Introduction
• Learn
• Try It
• Task

Introduction

You are driving to school, listening to your favorite songs and all of a sudden you hear a song that you have not heard since the homecoming dance last fall. The next thing that you know, you are experiencing a flood of memories and feelings from that dance.

Why? You learned to associate the song with your experiences and now you are remembering them. The stimulus is the song and the memories are the response. Many times we think that learning is only a school thing but the reality is that we are learning all of the time.