FRHD 3150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 29: Joseph Wolpe, Applied Behavior Analysis, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

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Giving it all some perspective: a brief history. He embarked on what is now called pavlovian, classical, or respondent conditioning. Prior to 1913, psychology was denied as the science of the mind , and john. Mary jones demonstrated the elimination of a child fear reactions by gradually placing the rabbit closer to the child while the child was engaging is pleasurable activities. Pavlovian conditioning is type of learning that involves reflexes- automated responses to prior stimuli: however, much of our behavior is influence by consequences rather. Skinner was influence by both watson"s behaviorism and pavlov"s experimental approach, but believed a different methodology was needed to study operant behavior. He described an apparatus that contained a lever that a laboratory rate could press and a mechanism for dispensing food pellets to reinforce the rats lever pressing: others have since called the experiment the skinner box.