PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Eyeblink Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Corneal Reflex
11 Apr 2013
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Summited work on classical conditioning in his phd dissertation at the university of pennsylvania. He repeatedly tested the knee-jerk reflex of college students by sounding a bell 0. 5 second before hitting the patellar tendon just below the kneecap. Soon enough the sounding of the bell set off the knee-jerk reflex. He did not explore deeper into his findings and did not receive much attention. A russian psychologist, studies on classical conditioning were an extension of digestion by developing surgical techniques that enabled dogs to survive for many years with artificial fistulae that permitted the collection of various digestive juices. He found that the dogs secreted stomach fluids in response to the sight of food or seeing the person that normally feeds them. They referred to this as psychic secretions because they seemed to be a response to the expectation or thought of food. They preformed the first systematic studies of classical conditioning in pavlov"s laboratory.
