martes, 30 de noviembre de 2010

Ivan Pavlov


What was Pavlov actually studying when he developed his theory of classical conditioning?
Pavlov was studying the digestive system when he developed his theory of classical conditioning.




Explain (in detail) how Pavlov's experiment was conducted.
Pavlov would measure the saliva the dog put out when seeing the food and hearing the bell.




Identify the conditioned stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned response from Pavlov's experiment.
Pavlov concentrated on investigating how conditioning responses are acquired. He used food on his new experiment as the unconditioned stimulus. He elect the sound of a metronome to be the neutral stimulus. The dogs listen the sound of the metronome, and then the food was rapidly in front of them. The food was the unconditioned stimulus , then the metronome which was chosen to be the neutral stimulus had become as the dog associates the metronome with food, to be the conditioned stimulus that provoked the conditioned response which was the salivation of the dog.



Explain what extinction means in relation to classical conditioning.
Extinction occurs when the classical conditioning or response decreases until it disappears.



Explain what stimulus generalization means in relation to classical conditioning. Stimulus generalization is when a reaction to a specific stimulus is connected to other stimuli and occurs to the other stimulus.




Explain what stimulus discrimination means in relation to classical conditioning.

Stimulus discrimination is about the learning response to one stimulus and not the other one.




Explain at least two limitations of this experiment.
  • Dogs can salivate when doing any types of efforts
  • These are dogs not humans, this could be different on human



Explain what Pavlov theorized about how we learn.

He makes me to understand with his experiment that we learn threw classical conditioning. Also that we will give a response when we relate to things together.

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