PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: James Mark Baldwin, Absolute Threshold, Wilhelm Wundt
6 Apr 2018
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2gg3: learning, measuring and shaping behaviour early behaviourism. The beginnings of scientific psychology: introspectionism: good (cid:449)ay to figure out (cid:449)hat"s goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) i(cid:374) the (cid:271)rai(cid:374) (cid:271)y aski(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e ho(cid:449) they are feeli(cid:374)g. This point is the absolute threshold, although it is more approximate than absolute: ex. Ivan petrovich pavlov: set out to become a priest like his father, performed poorly in elementary school, while in seminary, he became fascinated with russian translations of western scientific writings with. If a buzzer is sounded every time food is presented to the dog, eventually the buzzer called a conditioned stimulus (cs) will elicit the response of salivation now a conditioned response (cr) As an adult, he still gets little blips in his stomach when he hears the word rooster and he claims that birds make him nervous: resulted in ur like fear, high heart rate. Innate responses that automatically kick in that are built off of reflexes.
