Ivan Pavlov and John Watson Classical Conditioning

1. What was Pavlov actually studying when he developed his theory of classical conditioning?
digestive enzymes
Explain (in detail) how Pavlov's experiment was conducted.
Measured amounts of food where brought to dogs, the dogs salivated before the food was brought because they associated the food with the noise.
3. Identify the conditioned stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned response from Pavlov's experiment.
conditioned stimulus: the bell; unconditioned stimulus: food; conditioned response: the dog's saliva
4. Explain what extinction means in relation to classical conditioning.
a weakening and dissapearance of the CR tendency
5. Explain what stimulus generalization means in relation to classical conditioning.
a response to a stimulus that is associated to other stimuli that occurs to other stimuli.
6. Explain what sstimulus discrimination means in relation to classical conditioning.
to learn how to respond to one stimulus
7. Explain at least two limitations of this experiment.
he had to re-route the dogs salivary glands, and he only tested 2 dogs
8. Explain what Pavlov theorized about how we learn.
that we learn by associating things.

Source:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1904/pavlov-bio.html


http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/misc_topics/pavlov.html

John B. Watson:
1. Explain (in detail) how Watson's "Little Albert" study was conducted.
he got a small kid and exposed him to rats and other furry objects, the kid did not have any reaction. Then they put the same things but they made a sound by hitting a metal pipe, this time the boy cried. After this, the little boy got scared by just seeing the object.
2. Identify the conditioned stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned response from Watson's study
conditioned: rat; unconditioned: the sound; conditioned response: fear.
3. Explain at least two limitations of this study.
he only tested one kid and that it can not be replicated
4. Explain Watson's law of frequency.
it talks about the importance of repetition
5. Explain Watson's law of recency.
the response that occured most recently
6. Explain the basic assumptions of behaviorism according to Watson.
that you could change anyone if they changed their behavior.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson


http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesofmajorthinkers/p/watson.htm