In traditionalanimal learning theory, the process that forms associations by the first mechanism(temporal pairing of activation) is called the classical or Pavlovian conditioning process,while the process that forms associations through the agency of error-correcting feedbackis called the instrumental or operant conditioning process
That's funny. Eyelid conditioning is a well-known example of classical conditioning which is supposed to rely on the cerebellum. But the cerebellum isn't an associative learning machine-- it is an error learning machine! And yet classical conditioning is supposedly associative. This is confusing.