Can Humans Be Conditioned?

Just as Ivan Pavlov determined that animals can learn through classical conditioning, human responses can be conditioned through objects and events too.

Does conditioning work on humans?

The present paper describes a behavioral experiment investigating the effects of Pavlovian conditioned responses on performance in humans, focusing on the aversive domain. Results showed that Pavlovian responses influenced human performance, and, similar to animal studies, could have maladaptive effects.

How does a person become conditioned?

conditioning, in physiology, a behavioral process whereby a response becomes more frequent or more predictable in a given environment as a result of reinforcement, with reinforcement typically being a stimulus or reward for a desired response.