Fallon is afraid of loud sounds, like thunder. She associates lightning with thunder because it regularly precedes thunder. Thus
, when Fallon sees lightning, she braces herself for hearing a big boom several seconds later. Fallon has experienced a certain kind of associative learning known as
Classical conditioning <em>is learning by interaction</em> (also defined as Pavlovian conditioning) and was discovered by a Russian physiologist, Pavlov.
Simply put, two stimuli are associated in a person or animal to produce a new learned response.
