Classical Conditioning

Imagine you have a habit of checking your phone whenever you hear a notification sound, even if you're in the middle of a conversation. This is similar to classical conditioning, where a person or animal learns to connect a particular signal with a subsequent event. In this analogy, the notification sound is like the stimulus, prompting you to check your phone, expecting a message or update as a reward, just as in classical conditioning, an organism associates a stimulus with a reward or punishment.