PSYCH 4150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Empiricism, Classical Conditioning, Johns Hopkins University
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The physiologist must thus take his own path, where a trail has already been blazed for him. Three hundred years ago descartes evolved the idea of the reflex. This was the basis on which the study of the nervous system was firmly established. In the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries the conception of the reflex was used to the full by physiologists. Descartes" conception of the reflex was constantly and fruitfully applied in these studies, but its application has stopped short of the cerebral cortex. pavlov, 1927: lecture 1. Pavlov is looking at how external stimuli can be controlled to evoke certain responses. This way, you can choose what people are exposed to in order to have the outcome you want. Tower of silence: way to keep external stimuli out and to keep noises quiet, no excess light or noise, this way, he had the most controlled environment for the dogs. Pavlov"s program of research: basic processes of conditioning.
