Ivan Della Mea

Ivan Pavlov was born on 14th September, 1849 and has died on 27th February, 1936 (2014) Pavlov’s Biography article. Pavlov was not a psychologist himself and despite of the fact that he has disliked the field of psychology, Pavlov has made a major contribution…

The book that I chose to review was How to Raise the Perfect Dog: Through Puppyhood and Beyond, by Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peter. It is of import to note that Cesar is, apparently, a renowned dog behaviorist, and he starred on National Geographic’s The Dog Whisperer. Already, there is some credibility attributed to the major author of the book. Going in, I was expecting to come out an expert dog parent. However, this was a different type of training book. This book was extremely personal,…

examine the differences and similarities between classical and operant conditioning and examine situation where neither operant nor classical conditioning are present. Classical conditioning is most normally combined with Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov. It was through his investigation on digestion in dogs that…

What were Pavlov’s initial observations that prompted his experiments on respondent conditioning? (pg. 332) Pavlov initially implanted tubes into the dogs’ gland to measure the amount of secretion. When his assistant would present food to the dogs, they would salivate. After some time, they noticed that the dogs would salivate whenever the assistant entered the room, irrespective of whether he had food or not. b. Then describe the exact analogy between those observed events and the events…

The behavioral aspect of phychology is very important to understanding how people act. “Ivan Pavlov was the Russian physiologist that was able to demonstrate that dogs could associate something as neutral such as the ring of a bell could trigger the salvation of a dog.” (Hockenbarry) This was a very immense contribution to phycology because it was able to show future psychologists that people are also able to connect a neutral object with an upcoming event. A person may associate the siren of a…

Classical conditioning is a behavioral association between a naturally occurring events and an environmental stimulus. Think training your dog how to sit or roll over it’s the same concept. Actually it is called Pavlovian conditioning because of Ivan Pavlov. Ian Pavlov’s work actually started as a study on the digestion of dogs. Specifically the relationship between salivation and digestion process in the dogs stomach. He realized that the process was related and had similar pattern to the…

The Peer Review Article that I chose is called, “Do dogs get the point? A review of dog- human communication ability” by Juliane Kaminski and Marie Nitzschner which was available online June 6, 2013. This Article approach to dog's communication ability basically uses a lot of research that has already been performed to prove their point that, “dogs forms of communication may be more specialized than was predicted by some and may be best explained as the result of a special adaptation of dogs to…

John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist as well as a radical environmental determinist. He believed that humans could be “conditioned” like training animals. Watson promoted a upcoming change in psychology through a behaviourist approach. Based on Pavlov’s observations ,Watson proposed that the process of classical conditioning could explain all aspects of human psychology. Watson whole heartedly denied the existence of the mind and consciousness. According to Watson different…

JOHN B. WATSON’S EXPERIMENT ON LITTLE ALBERT According to the Oxford dictionary, behaviourism is “the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings…” John B. Watson was a psychologist who played an important role in the development of behaviourism. This essay will describe his theory of learning in detail, his experiment on little Albert and the ethical acceptability of this experiment. Watson believed that psychologists…

Is It True That Blue Dog Food Can Relieve Your Dog's Itching? Is the dog struggling with extreme itching? Have they got breakouts and thinning hair on the skin? If that's the case, your dog might be struggling with a food hypersensitivity. It is really an annoying symptom in which proteins using their food are noticed as 'invaders' by their physiques. Consequently your body attempts to defend itself through its usual systems, a procedure that leads to discomfort for that animal. Fortunately,…