A+B=C

In psychology, learning is defined as a permanent change in an organism's behavior. This is obviously a lot different than our understood definition of the word, and the underlying difference is the word behavior. Learning in our common definition does not need to affect someone's permanent personality to be considered learning. David myers defines learning as a relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experiences, so he would say that you didn't learn unless you got through experiences. Classical conditioning is one type of learning and it is when you learn to associate two stimuli and to anticipate an event. For example, I learn to associate thunder and lightning and that thunder always follows lightning so I anticipate an event (take cover and get ready for the loud noise). A (thunder)+B (lightning)=C (take cover and get ready). Pavlov did an experiment to prove that classical conditioning works. He measured how much dogs salivate and noticed that there is a natural tendency for dogs to salivate. Over time, he realized that the dog not just salivated when he ate the food, but when he saw the person coming to give him food as well (the salivation of when the person enters to give him food was learned). From this, he proved that classical conditioning does work. A+B=C!