At 8:45 AM -0700 4/23/02, sylvestm wrote:
>why is Pavlov's experiment called "classical"?
>is it classical because it was the original?
        yes
>can we use the term classical instrumental to refer to Thorndike's
> and classical operant to refer to Skinner's?

Unless you're teaching a history course, it would be clearer to your
students to standardize on one set of terms:

operant         respondent
Skinnerian      Pavlovian
instrumental    reflex
                classical

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