PS261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Foodborne Illness, Saccharin, 8 Seconds
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Classical conditioning enables human and nonhuman animals to take advantage of the orderly sequence of events in environment to take appropriate actions in anticipation of what is about to happen. The early years of classical conditioning: classical conditioning began by pavlov, also independently discovered by edwin twitmyer submitted in 1902. Repeatedly tested knee-jerk response by sounding a bell 0. 5 seconds before hitting knee. Bell was sufficient to elicit the knee-jerk reflex: pavlov"s research was extension of research on process of digestion. Made major advances in study of digestion by developing stomach fistulae that collects various digestive juices. Secretions could be used to study the mechanisms of association learning and functions of the nervous system: the discoveries of vul-fson and snarskii. First systematic studies of classical conditioning performed by vol"fson and snarskii in. After dogs were exposed to food in the mouth enough times, the sight of the drugs was enough to make them salivate.