*A person is an information unit
Receptors (sensory) receive information and relay it to interneurons (between neurons) that process info. Person transmits info through effectors. Basic effectors are hormonal secretions and movement.
*Receptors (receive) Interneurons (process) Effectors (transmit)
*A person is a computer made out of meat.
Behaviorism- you learn to be the person you are, persons are products of learning.
Conditioning processes- (learning) molded, modified, or adapted to the environment.
Molding- body is a lump of clay; environment is the “shaper”. Personhood is shaped by the environment (life).
Voluntary- behavior you can start and stop on command. Involuntary- behavior that you cannot start and stop on command.
Involuntary (Classical Conditioning, Respondent Conditioning)
PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING because of Ivan Pavlov
Pavlov was not a psychologist but a physiologist (digestive physiology with gastric secretions)
Work with dogs
Psychic reflexes
PSYCH NOTES 9/30
Pavlovian Conditional Responses.
Unconditional stimulus (UCS)- unlearned stimulus, environmental event that automatically produces a specific behavior without any learning at all.
Unconditioned response (UCR)- unlearned response, behavior automatically produced by the unconditioned stimulus
Condition stimulus (CS)- learned stimulus, neutral environmental event that comes to produce a behavior like the UCR by being paired with the UCS
UCS-food UCR- salivation (relationship) Bell is the CS. Pavlov would ring a bell which eventually became associated with food. Bell, food, salivation. Bell, food, salivation. Bell -- salivation
Conditioned response (CR)- learned response, behavior produced by the CS after conditioning has occurred.
Extinction- unconditioning, gradual elimination of a conditioned response through removal of the environmental controls of that response. CS is presented and never followed by the UC. (Bell, no food salvation. Bell,