Ivan Pavlov

between stimuli and responses. They held the belief that the core of psychology is the study of learning and that no matter how complex can be accounted for by the laws of conditioning. Although the idea of conditioning goes all the way back to Ivan Pavlov and his dogs, Watson expanded on this notion with his own experiments and proved that conditioning in humans is possible (Schultz & Schultz, 2011). This discovery reinforced the belief that humans had no free will and that we were a result of…

There has been recent research that has stated that obsession-compulsion disorder involves the dysfunction in a neuronal loop that runs from the orbital frontal cortex to the cingulate gyrus, striatum (cuadate nucleus and putamen), globus pallidus, thalamus and then back to the frontal cortex (Yerevanian, 2010). To back up The Carlat Psychiatry Report’s research, supporting the hypothesis is the results of neurosurgical treatment of obsession-compulsion disorder (Huey, 2010). Believed to…

Childhood Observation I completed my observation on Friday, October 7th. My observation took place at Forest Park Jr/Sr. High School in Ferdinand, Indiana. I went to this school because it is the school I attended for junior high and high school. Since we are a smaller town and do not have as many kids, our junior high school is in the same building as our high school. I walked into Mrs. Hawkins seventh grade math class. I planned on starting my observation at 8:00 am which is when school…

Learning is a change in an organism behavior or knowledge due to their experiences. Two well-supported theories in the psychological community are classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Ivan Pavlov, who discovered having a neutral stimulus presented with an unconditioned stimulus creates an unconditioned response leading to a controlled stimulus making a controlled response, developed classical conditioning. B.F Skinner another well-respected psychologist developed operant conditioning…

“A DEVIL, BORN DEVIL UPON WHOSE NATURE, NURTURE WILL NEVER STICK” THE TEMPEST (WILLIAM SHKESPARE) According to Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), Nature is everything which a man brings with himself to the world while Nature is every influence that affects him after birth. The nature versus nurture debate has been a controversial issue and it can be traced to about 150years ago. In 300BC some philosophers questioned nature vs nurture in human behaviour. A Greek philosopher named Plato (428 BCE –…

TUMELO KOLE 201302154 Critically appraise the relevance of theory for clinical social work practice in Botswana and the African Ms T Kole 5/6/2015 Critically appraise the relevance of theory for clinical social work practice in Botswana and the African context INTRODUCTION According to Dorfman (2013) Clinical social work practice is the professional application of social work theory and methods to the treatment and prevention of psychosocial dysfunction disability or impairment…

Brittany Morgan PSYC 385-01: Abnormal Psychology Fall 2015 12 October 2015 SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDER 1. After reviewing the interview footage, what do you think were the principle factors that induced Bobbie to abuse drugs? In the interview footage we were introduced to Bobbie, a woman who has struggled with substance abuse disorder in her past. She portrayed her early life as being filled with nothing but hardships and shortcomings since before she could remember. Throughout her…

The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). For example when the bell goes at lunch time students automatically start to pack up because they have learnt it means class is over. The best-known contiguity theory is Classical Conditioning developed by Ivan Pavlov. This is “kind of learning that occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus” Shettleworth, S. J. (2010) Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour (2nd Ed), New York: Oxford. For example conditioned stimulus may be…

Psychological Behaviorism: Learning Through Reinforcements Marist College Allyce Braddy Author Note Allyce Braddy, Marist College, Psychology Department. Abstract Study of human behavior has been fiercely debated and reviewed for centuries dating back to Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle. Behavioral Psychology flourished during the 1920’s as a leading theory of learning established upon the idea that all human behaviors develop through some sort of conditioning, lead by both…

made into models. In order to understand the human brain, animals are used as pre-models that are then tested like a human’s. Animal testing in the field of psychology has shed light on human emotion and brain function as well. A famous study by Ivan Pavlov used a dog to introduce the idea of conditioning, which was then applied to humans. This idea brought about different thoughts on learning, cognitive process, and more within people. Knowledge concerning different types of personality and…