PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reflex Arc, Vladimir Bekhterev, Classical Conditioning

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: Timothy Racine

Document Summary

Psyc 308 - lecture 8 - the behaviourist approach. Key figures include sechenov, vladimir, bekhterev, pavlov. Dewey"s reflex arc critique about this view of reflex. Bekhtereve defended objective psychology , attempt to explain all behaviour via reflexes. Co-discoverer of conditioned reflex, but critic of pavlov. It was watson that made pavlov a household name. Skinner is explicitly not only radical behaviourist, but radical positivist as well. Physiological methods were used to study mind. Planned to become priest, but after read darwin, decided to pursue career in natural science. Professor of physiology at st. petersburg 1890. Totally dedicated to lab & published little. Operated on living animals in which gastric fistula - channel leading from digestive organs to outside of body - was inserted so that digestive processes could be studied. Work won him 1904 nobel prize in physiology. During digestion work, pavlov discovered conditioned response - learned behaviour. Conditioned vs unconditioned response which are unlearned (innate) responses to particular stimuli.