Three basic laws of Pavlovian conditioning
1. Law of Excitation : It says that if a previously neutral CS is paired with a UCS, the CS’ acquires excitatory properties, that is, it acquires the properly of eliciting the CR.
2. Law of internal inhibition : Internal inhibition develops w’en the conditioned stimulus is not attended by he unconditioned, whether this be once or always, but in the latter event, only under certain circumstances. Thus come about extinction, retardation, conditioned inhibition, and differential inhibition. If a CS is not applied repeatedly, the CR gradually ceases to occur. This phenomena is termed as experimental extinction. In another case one of two similar stimuli, but not the other, is applied repeatedly, the second stimulus is inhibited as a special case of extinctive inhibition. This is referred to as differential inhibition.
Thus, this law characterizes a group inhibition phenomena which are caused by changes in the conditioned association itself and, unlike the various forms of unconditional inhibition, are acquired in learning processes
3. Law of external inhibition : In essence this law states that excitatory or inhibitory processes in conditioning can each be disrupted by novel distracting stimuli, This is called the law of external inhibition since the inhibition is not being acquired in the learning process but from outside.
1. Law of Excitation : It says that if a previously neutral CS is paired with a UCS, the CS’ acquires excitatory properties, that is, it acquires the properly of eliciting the CR.
2. Law of internal inhibition : Internal inhibition develops w’en the conditioned stimulus is not attended by he unconditioned, whether this be once or always, but in the latter event, only under certain circumstances. Thus come about extinction, retardation, conditioned inhibition, and differential inhibition. If a CS is not applied repeatedly, the CR gradually ceases to occur. This phenomena is termed as experimental extinction. In another case one of two similar stimuli, but not the other, is applied repeatedly, the second stimulus is inhibited as a special case of extinctive inhibition. This is referred to as differential inhibition.
Thus, this law characterizes a group inhibition phenomena which are caused by changes in the conditioned association itself and, unlike the various forms of unconditional inhibition, are acquired in learning processes
3. Law of external inhibition : In essence this law states that excitatory or inhibitory processes in conditioning can each be disrupted by novel distracting stimuli, This is called the law of external inhibition since the inhibition is not being acquired in the learning process but from outside.
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