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Unknown to Dwight, Jim has made him the subject in a classical conditioning experiment. Every time Jim's computer chimes he offers his subject,Dwight, a mint.
Ivan Pavlov 1849-1936
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
Brief Overview:
Pavlov was born in 1846 in the town of Ryazan, Russia where his father was the village priest. Pavlov was educated first at the church school and then at the theological seminary in Ryazan. Inspired by the likes of Charles Darwin and I.M. Sechenov Pavlov left his religious studies in favour of math and science. In 1875 Pavlov received a degree from the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg in Chemistry and Natural Science and then completed his graduate dissertation on the centrifugal nerve of the heart in 1883.
For the next 20 years, Pavlov concerned himself with physiological study, more specifically Pavlov was interested in studying the physiology of digestion. Pavlov was a pioneer in developing ways to measure the saliva production and digestive processes of a living animal. While researching the digestion physiology of dogs at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Pavlov noticed that the dogs salivation response could be triggered by stimuli other than food. From this observation he concluded that organism's reflexes could be conditioned. It was from this discovery of the function of conditioned reflexes that Pavlov constructed all of his future experiments around.
What is Palvlovian Conditioning?
This video explains Pavlov's experiments.
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The Process of Pavlovian conditioning
Unconditioned Stimulus (US) & Unconditioned Response (UR)
Pavlov realized that there were some behaviours that dogs are hard wired to do, such as salivate when they see food. These hard wired responses to an unconditioned stimulus (US) are what behaviourists called unconditioned responses (UR), or a response that does not require training. |
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Simply put:
US + NS = CR
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Pavlov and other behaviourists discuss the idea of externally motivating development of specific traits and skills. Discuss intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and how they impact the classroom. What are some of the methods that you use in class to condition your students to produce the behaviours you are looking for?
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