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Understanding Human Behaviour
Behaviourism: Pavlov, Skinner and conditioning
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Overview
Central claim of the behaviourist perspective, ivan Pavlov originally studying when he discovered classical conditioning and unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response in Pavlov's experiment.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Identify the unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response in Pavlov's experiment.
How did a neutral stimulus become a conditioned stimulus in Pavlov's work?
Questions from this subtopic
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State the central claim of the behaviourist perspective.
Model answer
Behaviourists claim that all behaviour is learned from the environment and that psychology should study only what can be observed and measured.
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What did behaviourists mean by describing the newborn mind as a blank slate?
Model answer
Behaviourists used the blank slate to argue that a child is born with no fixed personality and that everything they become is written on them by experience.
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What was Ivan Pavlov originally studying when he discovered classical conditioning?
Model answer
Ivan Pavlov was studying digestion in dogs, measuring salivation in response to food, when he noticed the dogs began salivating before the food arrived.
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Identify the unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response in Pavlov's experiment.
Model answer
In Pavlov's experiment the food was the unconditioned stimulus and salivation in response to the food was the unconditioned response.
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How did a neutral stimulus become a conditioned stimulus in Pavlov's work?
Model answer
A neutral stimulus such as a metronome or bell was repeatedly sounded just before the food was given, until the sound alone produced salivation and had become a conditioned stimulus.
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Define classical conditioning.
Model answer
Classical conditioning is learning by association, in which a neutral stimulus repeatedly paired with a stimulus that already produces a reflex comes to produce that reflex on its own.
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