PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Johns Hopkins University, Ethology, Paradigm Shift
31 Jan 2014
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Learning experience of a situation or environment at one point in time alters behavior. Two categories: classical conditioning, operant conditioning. Overt, observable acts in response to observable stimuli. All behavior is learned s-r (stimuli- response) Also allowed for some learning we can not see but said these things were not things to ask questions about. Experiments influenced watson: reflex- an automatic stimulus response sequence mediated by the nervous system, stimulus response- an action immediately following a particular event. Pavlov"s dogs: studying reflexes in digestion. Problem: dogs would salivate prior to food. Dogs were making an association with food presentation that elicited a reflexive response = salivating. Unconditioned stimulus and neural stimulus will elicit reflex action. Conditioned stimulus will elicit a conditioned response. Neural stimulus (bell) = no solution with dog. Neural stimulus (bell) unconditioned (food) unconditioned (solution) Mental thought connects word and image see image. The phenomenon of association by contiguity had been witnessed as far back as.
