On 6 May 2006 at 21:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While surfing the Afro networks,I came across a piece that purport to > have evidence that Pavlov was not the first to discover classical > conditioning.It was a black scientist.I will be digging further on > this and post the skinny on the black scientist.
Please do. I believe the leading contender to Pavlov in the classical conditioning department is Edward Twitmyer (1873-1943), and some believe we should be referring to Twitmyerian conditioning rather than Pavlovian. A photograph of Twitty (as his friends likely called him) suggests an absence of Blackness, and his dogs are definitely white. http://www.psych.upenn.edu/history/twittext.htm Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
