John Watson

possible for the public majority to accept Watson’s doctrine of child rearing when his family was a model of how not to raise your children? Was the public then, like now, more impressed with charisma and charm than actual results? And how could Watson believe the sermon he preached when his own family disproved his theory? 3. A discussion of how the ideas presented agree or disagree with…

Ivan Pavlov who was a Russian physiologist discovered classical conditioning around 1900. This unique type of learning triggered self-determination and got his interest in finding the conditions that surround classical conditioning. The classical conditioning consists of four elements which are the unconditioned stimulus (UCS), unconditioned response (UCR), conditioned stimulus (CS), conditioned response (CR). Pavlov discovered that even if the dog didn’t have food it would drool. Something…

The two concepts always end up in the end result of learning ,but very different on how the end result comes to be. To fully know how these two conditions work, it is important to know how they both function and differ from each other. Most importantly to know the differences, you focus on if the response is natural or unnatural. Classical condition was brought to light by Ivan Pavlov. In classical conditioning , it involves having a neutral sign right before a natural reflex. Ivan Pavlovs…

I am beginning to get far too familiar with rat paws. After thirteen weeks of recording the red-eyed Sprague Dawley rats walking across an elevated horizontal ladder, a circular ladder and a treadmill, I am now tasked with spending my days evaluating the quality of their walking ability. The video begins at an angle below the ladder and the rat appears in the frame. It is roaming around, familiarizing itself with its environment and probably searching for its cage mate. As it moves around the…

Classical conditioning is an important concept in behavioral psychology. First introduced by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov in his 1927 book Conditioned Reflexes, classical conditioning was not only a revolutionary finding, but one that is still widely accepted today. Its understanding has lead psychologists to theorize various societal applications. Knowing the mechanisms involved in classical conditioning is key to understanding the importance of this behavioral phenomenon. Classical…

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…

I imagine that the experience of conditioning Apollo has been much like human parenting: exciting and equally frustrating. After 6 days, Apollo probably thinks he has been successfully training us instead. Since he is a younger rat, it was necessary for Apollo to be well socialized and used to interacting with us. He was not receptive at first, but very quickly after became used to us and his environment. One particular issue in the beginning was his insistence on squeaking when we made contact…

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…