Update: One key concept of behaviorism that really stood out to me was Pavlov and his discovery of conditioned and unconditioned behaviors with classical conditioning. Classical Conditioning is defined as "learning that happens unconsciously". When classical conditioning happens, we learn from an automatic conditioned response that is then followed by a specific stimulus, thus, what keeps us coming back. For example, in the video "Classical Conditioning - Ivan Pavlov" the dog would salivate when he would see the food, when the whistle was paired with the food, the dog quickly learned to associate the whistle with the food and would continue to salivate. When the food was taken away and the whistle was only left, the dog would continue to salivate. This was how Pavlov discovered Classical Conditioning. The image attatched to this update shows a clear illistration of the four stages in this expiriment. In conclusion, "Any stimulus an organism can perceive is capable of eliciting any reaction the organism is capable of making." - Pavlov. Modern classrooms use Classical Conditioning to help make teahing and learning run smoothly, but now adays, lots of students are learning virtually. This got me thinking about how or if Classical Conditioning still plays a large role in virtual teaching. According to Siddharth Srivastava and Prabhakar T.V. "These theories work well when applied on one to one or traditional classroom teaching environment. In online education, it is often not possible to directly use these theories to control learner's classical conditioning, learning by doing, learning by imitation and social-cognitive skills concerning the course structure due to differences in learner's learning ecosystem." (Srivastava and T.V., 2020) This research is all about the differences on the learning enviornmetns of the students and how Classical Conditioning looks and feels different when it's done virtually. 

Classical Conditioning Image from Pavolv's Experiment