Tag
Classical Conditioning
Entries tagged classical conditioning.
3 entries
Ideology
Behaviorism
The movement that tried to make psychology a science of observable behavior alone, ruling the mind out of its own subject matter until the mind forced its way back in.
12 min
Thought experimentClassical Conditioning
Pavlov's discovery that pairing a neutral signal with a reflex-triggering stimulus teaches the nervous system to treat the signal as a cause in its own right.
9 min
Thought experimentLittle Albert
The 1920 study in which two psychologists conditioned an infant to fear a white rat, a landmark of behaviorism and one of the most ethically indefensible experiments in the field's history.
8 min