APSY-UE 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Classical Conditioning
19 Oct 2016
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Chapter iii, reading 9: it"s not just about salivating dogs. Classical conditioning: theory of learning was developed and articulated 100 years ago in. Russia by ivan pavlov (technically not a psychologist) Study: used dogs as subjects to study the role of salivation on digestion. Assistants would introduce different types of food or nonfood substances into the dog"s mouth and observe the rate and amount of salivation. Found that when a dog received moist food little saliva. Production of saliva was regarded by pavlov as a reflex (response that occurs automatically) Continued his research noticed they salivated before food had reached their mouths and before the odor of food was present. Dogs had learned from experience in the lab to expect food following the appearance of certain signals. Signal stimuli do not naturally produce salivation, dogs just associated them w food.
