- Pavlonian or classical conditioning - learned reflex Unconditioned Stimulus (US) -- e.g. bell ringing Natural Stimulus (NS) -- e.g. food Response (R) -- e.g. salivating NS -> R NS + US -> R US -> R - Human conditioning -- Baby Albert (Watson and Rayner 1920) NS - hammer hitting steel bars US - white rat R - crying - Stimulus generalization -- also cried with white rabbit or fur coat - Higher order conditioning (Driscoll 2000, p. 22) - Systematic desensitization (Driscoll 2000, p. 22) - Wolpe 1958, 1969; Brewer 1974 (cited in Driscoll 2000, pp. 22-23) only subjects told about UCS - CS pairings tended to acquire the conditioned response Leahey and Harris 1997 p. 23
A conceptual framework of learning on which domain-specific, individualized, theories of learning can be constructed.