As we saw, Pavlovian conditioning is the process by which inborn reflexes, including those reactions that we usually consider emotions, spread to new situations and settings.
Pavlovian conditioning is largely responsible for our motivation to respond in any situation.
Operant conditioning, on the other hand, is what we learn to do to satisfy these motivational states. Pavlovian conditioning is often considered to be involuntary. The organism has little control over the response, in that the environment elicits the behavior from the organism. Another way of looking at this difference is to look at the relationship between behavior and the environment. Whether responses occur in the future depend upon the nature of the contingency .