Ivan Pavlov

Service dogs have one purpose. That purpose is to protect and help their owner in day to day tasks that they may not be able to do with impairments. Having a hearing impairment comes with a lot of difficulties. That is why dogs like Haven are here to help. Service dogs can be found anywhere and everywhere - even in Groom, Texas. Groom ISD got the opportunity to have a service dog, owner and trainer visit and talk to the Small Animal Management class about the-behind-the-scenes life of a…

The soft sounds of approaching footsteps outside my bedroom window intrigued me. Today, the familiar padding of cat’s paws took on a significant change I did not recognize. I knew that Scruffy, a scrawny alley-cat who eked out a meagre existence in our neighborhood, was late this day. Usually, this ageless creature made no other sounds as he neared my bedroom, but this morning he uttered several plaintive heart-rending cries and I wondered why. Scruffy is the name I knew him by, while my…

A.Heredity-is a term that refers to traits and features that are inherited from one's parents and predecessors. At birth a person inherits 50% of each parent's genetic material (genes) that are passed along through the chromosomes found in the DNA . B.Nativists-is the view that certain skills or facilities are "native" or hard-wired into the encephalon at birth. C.Environmentalists-is an interdisciplinary field that fixates on the interplay between individuals and their circumventions. The…

If I were to set up a learning experiment, I would train my dog to associate a whistle sound with a treat. This would hopefully teach her to react to a whistling sound and can them be used to get her attention. To accomplish this, I’d reward her with a treat and praise after I whistle. I would use her natural response of salivation to food and combine it with a stimulus, a whistle sound, in order to achieve my goal. I would do this daily in the morning and use positive reinforcement such as food…

Classical Conditioning UCS- The unconditioned stimulus in this experiment is the air coming out of the straw. When the air is blown into the eye, the eye automatically blinks. This is a natural reaction and has no other foreign variables acting upon it to influence the blinking. An unconditioned stimulus triggers an automatic response. UCR- The unconditioned response in this experiment is the eye blinking after being blown into. As stated earlier, this response is unlearned and happens without…

The theory of classical conditioning is that in which two stimuli are repeatedly paired together to train the brain to expect something when a specific action is performed noise heard and things of that nature. The process being the integration of the stimuli together over a period of time to the point where it is subconsciously expected every time the stimuli is present. Operant conditioning is the mental training that involves the association of rewards and punishments for behavior…

All of the perspectives were very interesting but if I had to choose one it would be the behavioral perspective. I found Ivan Pavlov and John B. Watson’s studies extremely interesting. In Abnormal Psychology by Deborah C. Beidel, Cynthia M. Bulik, and Melinda A. Stanley, it talks about Ivan Pavlov’s study on how he noticed his dogs salivating every time he brought out food for them and he paired with a bell until when he only rang the bell the dogs will salivate because they believed food was…

Every movie has multiple techniques that coordinate with each other in order to bring the meaning of it all together. The movie Creed, directed by Ryan Coogler, is one that uses these techniques quite nicely in order to show the determination of the main character, Adonis Johnson. From the very beginning of the film a big technique that stands out is narrative, which provides the structure of the movie. It begins with an extremely noticeable motif of Adonis Johnson at a juvenile detention,…

Many different forms of art were used to reflect both society's political changes and the move to the modern world in Russia and Great Britain from the late 1800's to the early 1900's. In Russia, Fyodor Dostoyevsky used his main character in the novel Crime and Punishment (1866) to explore the psychology of the tsar Nicholas I. The novel Crime and Punishment reflects Dostoyevsky's life experiences of the events happening in Russia. The main character in the book, Raskolnikov, experiences…

Boxing, Opportunities, and the American Dream Rocky is considered an American classic by many, and for obvious reasons. Rocky is not only a story about boxing, but a story about a man who doesn’t have much in his life, but manages to rise up to the top. It’s a rags-to-riches story; an example of how anyone can achieve the American Dream. Sylvester Stallone, who not only acted and directed this feature film, but wrote the screenplay for this film, stated that this film in it of itself is the…