John B. Watson

During this lab report, we observed the anatomy of a rat. Our task was to dissect a rat and identify its internal organs along with the function of those organs. We carefully removed 10 organs from our rat to take notes on. What we noticed was the homologous structures of the rats were closely related to our own body composition. Their internal organs were positioned in close relation to where ours takes shape, and they looked immensely similar. In addition to their location and size, the rat's…

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…

Classical conditioning is a way we learn to associate stimuli, and further expect events (Speilman, 2014, sect. 6.2). The founder of this process is named Ivan Pavlov, which was born in 1849 and deceased 1936. Classical conditioning, for example, is when you make a beeping noise every time before you feed a dog a treat, when you repeatedly do this, the dog will associate the sound with the treat (Speilman, 2014, sect. 6.2). This means that eventually, every time it hears the beeping noise, the…

John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who established that psychology should study only observable behavior, he was determined to demonstrate that fears could be conditioned, through a processes involving an association of stimuli. Watson believed that the goal of psychology must be to study something that is definable and observable. He was doing his research on conditioning of fear in humans. Watson had already done research to prove that young children are not naturally afraid of…

conditioning establishes the theory tested in Pavlov’s trial demonstrating how are emotions is tested in an unfamiliar situation. Pavlov’s study was an important experiment to recognize, because it defines our human behavior in ordinary situations. Watsons test Little Albert in reading 10 distinguishes the identity of fear as it relates to our experiences. Applying the rat repeatedly in the experiment specified…

John Watson is often described as the Father or creator of Behaviorism. Behaviorism focuses on tangible and evident information rather than introspection to gain knowledge about something. The opposition to mental feelings and other internal states is what Watson believed gives humans the ability to control behavior. The original definition of psychology, the study of the human mind and its functions, takes on a different viewpoint that focuses on describing experiences. Watson, however,…

¬ Pavlov’s historical experiment started off with him just just measuring if and how much a dog would salivate during digestion. The dog would salivate quickly when it saw the food but after repeatedly doing the same test Pavlov noticed that the dog started to salivate even before the food was presented and that even just listening to his footsteps the dog would start to salivate. Pavlov wanted to find out why this was happening so he wanted to find out by “systematically varying the stimuli…

Learning is a concept that is familiar to most of the human population and many other organisms. Many learn through association; when one thing is linked to another. Conditioning- when behavior changes because the organism links that behavior with a certain event- is a form of associative learning. Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist who was studying saliva and digestion when he discovered classical conditioning quite by accident. While conducting his experiments on saliva, Pavlov realized…

The article primarily focused on the contributions Pavlov made to behaviour therapy. It was argued that of all of Pavlov’s theoretical principles, the conditioning paradigms were the most influential to the establishment of behaviour therapy. The article outlined the Pavlovian origins of behaviour therapy, highlighting that Pavlov’s conditioning process could not only produce but eliminate neurotic behaviours. It was argued that the conditioning process of eliminating the neurotic behaviour,…

imaginable. Rather than play innocent about these dynamics, “Sherlock” mines them heavily, for humor and frisson. Yet for all the “Wait, are they actually gay?” gags, the show is admirably committed to something more serious: the notion of Sherlock/Watson as both True Detective and True…