PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cognitive Map, Operationalization, Logical Positivism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Interested in animals (thorndike"s puzzle box; experiments with cats) Had a signi cant in uence on psychology and represented the transition from functionalism to the school of behaviourism. Three problems: 1) nerve function in the heart, 2) primary digestive glands, 3) conditioned re exes. Found that dogs salivate at the sight of food (conditioned) vs. salivating when food is in the mouth. Had a low opinion of introspection and believed that conditioned re exes could be explained in terms of the neuronal circuitry and the physiology of the brain. Excitation and inhibition; these states together make up what pavlov called the cortical mosaic: called the second conditioned response elicited by the stimulus spontaneous recovery. Studied mental disorders but his research has been suppressed. Associated re exology with motored conditioned re exes (muscles: redrawing nger from shock (i. e. shock, buzzer, nger, what pavlov called a conditioned re ex, bechterev called an association re ex.