behavioral psychologist had come up with new use
not only a animal behavior but of human nature as well
and these use all concerned a process that we take for granted learning
because we are all surely born to learn
ironically one of the most important figures in this study of learning i've been pavlov
wasn't concerned with the subject that'll at least not at first
have a lot i'm noted russian scientists on the nobel prize for physiology in madison
in nineteen o four
as this original for that shows have love was initially interested in digestion and the
action of the cell a very glance
i diverting the saliva dogs in to test two
you could precisely measure if and how much they celebrated during digestion
when food was presented the dog salivating quickly and inherited sal a very reflex
but of a repeated testings a strange thing happened
the dogs calibrated before contact with the full
just this side of the food was enough to stimulate a drooling
then
just seeing the food dish or even hearing the footsteps the pavlov or his assistance
was enough to trigger this built in reflex
what is going on to elicit this response
pavlov decided to find out i systematically varying the stimuli and measuring the dogs reaction
metronome lights and bells work well use the stimuli and they all work as stand
ins for the food
what mattered was not the kind of stimulus that was used for the fact that
reliably signal the pool was on the way
have a lot have discovered fundamental type of learning or classical conditioning
in original stimulus elicits an automatic on learn response both stimulus and response happen actually
they are on condition
in a second neutral stimulus that never elicit on condition response by itself is introduced
just before the presentation of the original stimuli
the neutral or signalling stimulus is presented alone
and response occurs as if the original stimulus was still there
we say that conditioning has taken place just
arbitrary neutral stimulus becomes a conditions
the reverse is also true
pavlov and how this study the extinction over time of such conditioned responses
when the subject learns that the condition stimulus no more mixed signals the desired event
speech transposition process is reversed as the learned connection is gradually weaker
how blobs work the work of those are followed him like to a remarkable conclusion
and that is any stimulus an organism can perceive is capable of eliciting any reaction
the organism is capable of making
this means that virtually in sound site or smell can influence the way i muscles
tense or relax
or moves fluctuate or even the way our right to therefore
for instance if i say relax
and then do this
you going to be startled enough set
after five or six pairings of relax
just saying the word relax
is going to generate and negative response rather than its usual learned reaction