OK -- I cleaned up the Wikipedia article a bit. It did already indicate that Pavlov used a number of different conditional stimuli.
On Sep 27, 2013, at 11:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Yet Wikipedia assures us: > > "Pavlov had learned then when a bell was rung in subsequent time with > food being presented to the dog in consecutive sequences, the dog > will initially salivate when the food is presented. The dog will > later come to associate the ringing of the bell with the presentation > of the food and salivate upon the ringing of the bell." > > Similarly, the Nobel Foundation tells us: > > "In a series of experiments, Pavlov then tried to figure out how > these phenomena were linked. For example, he struck a bell when the > dogs were fed. If the bell was sounded in close association with > their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with > food. After a while, at the mere sound of the bell, they responded by > drooling." > > Or you could just search on Pavlov and bell, and come up with a > thousand such descriptions. Or go to textbooks of introductory > psychology. > > There's a real mystery here. Why, when there is such an extraordinary > poverty of evidence that Pavlov's work was fundamentally based on > observing the salivary behaviour of a dog in response to a ringing > bell, do people continue to believe this? > > That's the myth. > > Stephen Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=28162 or send a blank email to leave-28162-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
