PS102 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 Detailed Notes.docx
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Pavlov"s demonstration: psychic reflexes : pavlov was one o those who was responsible for turning psychology from research focusing on subjective accounts of experience, introspection to a more scientific approach, de emphasized the mind, said learning was under the influence of experience and that associations could be built up in consciousness", built a broad theory of learning that attempted to explain aspects of emotion, temperament, neuroses, and language. Spontaneous recovery: resurrecting responses: some conditioned responses display the ultimate in tenacity by reappearing from the dead" after having been extinguished, spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus, the renewal effect is if a response is extinguished in a different environment than it was acquired, the extinguished response will reappear if the animal is returned to the original environment where acquisition took place.
