Learning & Teaching Foreign Languages
Conditioning experiment
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This game will allow you to train a dog to salivate on hearing a bell, replicating Pavlov's famous classical conditioning experiments on animals. Read the instructions, then try your hand.
Questions
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How many trials did it take before the dog began to salivate before it could see the food?
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Why does the experimenter continue with more trials after this point?
ANSWERS
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How many trials did it take before the dog began to salivate before it could see the food? Six
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Why does the experimenter continue with more trials after this point? To reinforce the association.
You can continue with a short quiz after the game, or return to this site to read about Pavlov or another type of training, called operant conditioning.