FRHD 3150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 29: Laboratory Rat, Reciprocal Inhibition, Operant Conditioning Chamber
19 Apr 2013
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Historical perspective and ethical issues 4/18/2013 3:52:00 pm. Measuring the secretions of the salivary glands as well as stomach, pancreas and small intestine glands. Presentation of food to a dog produced a chain of digestive secretions beginning with salivation. Sight of smell of food and sounds of it being prepared produced digestive gland secretion (basis for studying reflexes) Unconditional reflex: is unlearned or not conditional on any pairing process (food-salivation reflex) Conditional reflex: is learned or conditional on a pairing process (tone-salivation reflex) Advocated an alternative approach to science of mind (1913), and called it behaviorism. Argued that the most complex activities were due to pavlovian conditioning. Used pavlovian conditioning of a fear response in an 11-month old infant. Child was not afraid of a white rat, and after pairing of the white rat with loud noise, caused the infant to exhibit a conditioned reflex of fear to the rat.
