Step 1: Define learning through its outcome.
Learning shows up as a change that lasts and is caused by experience, not by simple maturation or a one-off reflex.
Step 2: Pick a theory and explain its logic before its example.
Classical Conditioning explains learning as building an association: repeatedly linking two things until one alone can trigger the response that used to need both.
Step 3: Walk through Pavlov's setup as evidence.
Food alone made dogs salivate from the start. Pavlov added a bell just before the food, many times over, until the bell alone was enough to cause salivation, with no food needed.
Step 4: Apply the same logic to a classroom.
If praise (a positive response) is repeatedly linked to answering questions, students eventually feel positive and confident at just being asked a question, even before any praise is given that time.
Final Answer:
Learning is a lasting, experience-based change in behaviour, and Classical Conditioning shows one clear way it forms: through repeated pairing of a neutral cue with a natural response until the cue alone can trigger it.