Friday 24 July 2015

Academic Assignments on Behaviour Therapy

According to Nelson-Jones (2001), Pavlov was researching the functioning of the brains of dogs, originally in relation to digestion, and discovered the "conditioned response" quite by accident.[1]  Kagan and Segal (1992), on the other hand, state that Pavlov was pursuing the question "Can reflexes be modified by learning?"[2]   This became known as "classical conditioning", and consists of the observed fact that incidental features of the situation in which the laboratory dogs were fed, tended to become associated with, or linked to, the inherited reflex of salivating in the presence of food.[3]  Pavlov, and those who followed him,  conducted thousands of experiments to check his insight that any (originally neutral) stimulus which becomes paired with a significant stimulus, related to the inborn salivation reflex of a dog, would in its own right become a new stimulus which would produce the innate reflex.

Academic Assignments on Behaviour Therapy




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