What Comte (19th Century) and Bacon (17th Century) had in common correct answers They
were both rationalists, opposed to empiricists
They believed they could control nature
Pavlov's studies with dogs, correct answers The salivation of dogs when conditioned with the
food and bell. surgically segregated small portion of stomach to collect fluids, dogs salivated
more to dry than moist foods
extinction
ucs- food
ucr- saliva
cs- metronome
cr-saliva
generalization- similar stimuli create similar results
discrimination- only with cs
experimental neurosis- stimuli seem very similar so similar results
Pavlov's recognition for his work with the Nobel Prize correct answers Pavlov earned the Nobel
Prize for his painstaking ad ingenious investigation of the physiology of digestion
in particular he was known for inventing or perfecting a number of surgical techniques to
facilitate this research
How the Soviet Union treated Pavlov correct answers - confiscated his nobel prize money and
refused permission to emigrate
-after pavlolv accepted soviet union, soviet backed his work, when war broke out government
saw to give as much support to continue research as they could,
-special comittee to safeguard work nad research
,Pavlov's influence on American psychologists correct answers had little immediate impact
-major impact began in the 1920s when much of his work was translated to english
gave speeches at yale
american psychologists \, especially b ehaviorists eventually understood the importance of
pavlovs reasearch for their own theories of learning
Ernest Hilgard- pavlovs importance was taken for granted for ttheories of learning
had direct impact on the career choice of skinner, influenced by conditioned replexes "control
your conditions....you will see order"
How Pavlov's work differed from that of Bekhterev's correct answers bekheterev investigated
motor rather than salivating conditioning, in which muscle movement were conditioned to
various stimuli
Watson's work in animal behavior correct answers - study of the relationship between cortical
development and learning in young white rats
-used to think that that immature rats were incapable of true associative learning
-watson demonstrated that that rats showed minimal learning ability for approxemately the first 3
weeks of their lives but ability to forma associations improved dramatically in their fourth week,
associated with the ohysical development of the cortex
maze studies- what senses were needed for a rat to complete a maze, eliminated senses,
shortened maze
-tested visual abilities of different species
Who influenced Watson's work correct answers Dewey, James Rowland Angell, Henry Herbert
Donaldson and Jacques Loeb
How Watson explained thinking correct answers
Watson's "behaviorist manifesto" and reactions to it correct answers the goal of psyhcology was
the prediction and control of behavior, introspection had no scientific value
, -discarted consciousness
-proposed psychology become the science of behavior
-got watson apa presidency
-titchner and calkins were critical
Watson's work with Rayner correct answers worked on little albert together
systematic desensitization- desensitizing by having little white rabbit in same area
Watson's work with children correct answers -sudied investigating reflexes, basic emotions and
conditioned emotional responses
-set out to identify most fundamental human emotional responses and the stimuli that produced
those responses
fear, rage, love
fear- a sudden catching of the breath, clutching randomly with the hands, blinking of the eye lids,
puckering of the lips then crying when exposed to loud noises or loss of support
rage- hindering of the infants movements
love- smiling, gurgling, or cooing
Watson's thoughts on child-bearing correct answers doesnt matter who the child was born to, it
matter \s how he was raised, give me a dozen infants
dont be too affectionate, invalidism failure for child to be responsible, independent, and
successful
babies can overcome short term effects of physiological deprivation, but character cant be
changed
Operational definitions correct answers definitions involving precise descriptions of procedures
of measurements and for specifying the variables in an experiment
Neobehaviorist research/researchers and who might be interested in Lewin's topology correct
answers learning central ti understanding bahavior