HDF 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Edward C. Tolman, Delayed Gratification, Social Cognitive Theory
16 Nov 2016
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A russian physiologist whose research focused on the physiology of the digestive system. He invented a technique to monitor digestive processes while the animal was alive. In the context of this research, he observed the systematic relationship of salivation to features of the environment apart from the food itself. These observations led to the formulation of basic principles of classical conditioning. Classical conditioning begins with the natural or unlearned link between a stimulus and a response. Unconditioned stimulus: the stimulus that naturally produces a reflexive response. Neutral stimulus: the stimulus that elicits a response of interest or attention, but nothing more. Conditioned stimulus: the previously neutral stimulus, paired with the unconditioned stimulus, takes on properties of the unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response: a response to the conditioned stimulus that has some or all of the characteristics of the unconditioned response. Events happening regularly just before the events that trigger a reflexive response will also produce a version of the reflexive response:
