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excitatory conditioning
excitatory conditioning Excitatory conditioning is a form of classical learning in which a cue such as an odor is presented just before and slightly overlaps a rewarding stimulus like sucrose, so the cue comes to trigger the response on its own.
Excitatory conditioning is a form of classical learning in which a cue such as an odor is presented just before and slightly overlaps a rewarding stimulus like sucrose, so the cue comes to trigger the response on its own. In the bee example, an odor paired in this forward way later elicits proboscis extension without sucrose.