Associative learning

…In contrast to habituation, a passive process in which responses to stimuli that are meaningless to an individual are eliminated, most learning is an active process in which new responses are acquired, and is called positive learning. In addition, the combination of two types of stimuli (association) is important in this type of learning, and it is called associative learning. Models of this learning include classical conditioning, which is modeled on IP Pavlov's conditioned reflex, and EL Thorndike's instrumental conditioning. …

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…個体にとって意味のない刺激に対し反応を除去していく消極的過程の慣れに対し，大部分の学習は新しい反応を獲得する積極的過程で，積極的学習positive learningという。また，この型の学習では2種の刺激の組合せ(連合)が重要であり，連合学習associative learningという。この学習のモデルとして，I.P.パブロフの条件反射を原型とする古典的条件づけと，E.L.ソーンダイクの道具的条件づけがある。…

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