Pavlov's Ideas To Explain The Six Basic Psychological Perspectives

P1- Write a report which includes diagrams, to explain the six principal psychological perspectives.
Ivan Pavlov was many psychologist to study behaviours. He used his theory about dogs and their response to food to understand salivation. He noticed that dogs would begin to salivate whenever they seen food, but eventually started to salivate just whenever Pavlov entered the room.
He noticed that dogs don’t learn to salivate, it is a reflex. It comes naturally whenever they see food. This is called an unconditioned response, this means a stimulus response that needed no learning.
Pavlov did an experiment to show his theory.
He presented a dog with a bowl of food and measured the saliva the dog produced. But after doing this same experiment over and over again the dog began to associate things with the bringing of the food, therefore started to produce saliva before the food was brought to him, e.g. whenever he seen the lab assistant he would imminently associate him with the food. Pavlov then realised he made a scientific discovery and In behaviorist terms, the lab assistant was originally a neutral stimulus. It is called neutral because it produces no response. What had happened was that the neutral stimulus (the lab assistant) had become associated with an unconditioned stimulus (food).
Because the dog had learned the association between the bell with food this was now called a conditioned response.
Another psychologist to study behaviourism is John Watson. He thought that behaviours could be measured and changed he used the little Albert experiment to show this. Watson believed that all individual differences in behaviour were due to different experiences of