

Research - Behavioral Conditioning
Behavioral conditioning is a type of learning by which an organism can be trained to produce a predictable response as a result of reinforcement. Organisms from the primitive roundworm c. elegans to complex organisms such as humans can all learn stimulus-response associations. Conditioning results in either a given stimulus evoking a predictable response (“classical conditioning”), or a response occurring more regularly in a stable, well-defined environment (“operant condit