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Learning is any permanent change in behavior that can be attributed to experience. Learning isn’t always the result of practice. It depends on what you mean by practice. Merely repeating a response will not necessarily produce learning. You could close your eyes and swing a tennis racket hundreds of time without learning anything about tennis. Reinforcement is the key to learning. Any event that increases the probability that a response will occur again is …showed first 75 words of 639 total…

…showed last 75 words of 639 total…conditioned stimulus a stimulus that, because of learning, will evoke a response. The meat powder is an unconditioned stimulus, which is a stimulus innately capable of eliciting a response. Since a reflex is built in it is called an unconditioned response. In Pavlov’s experiment salivation was the unconditioned response. When the bell produced salivation the dog was making a new response, which salivation had become a conditioned response, or a response that was learned.