![]() With cognitive psychology came imaging technologies and brain mapping mechanisms to conduct experiments on the mind which were prohibited before. Behaviorism rejects all processes or events of the mind and assumes that they are too subjective to study, and also unimportant. Many articles describe the main focus of cognitive psychology as “conducting scientific research on the processes of the mind.” While behaviorism deals mainly with behavior that can be observed, cognitive psychology is less concerned with visible behavior and more concerned with the mental processes behind it. Hence, this experiment converted a neutral stimulus to a conditioned stimulus producing a conditioned response showing that Pavlov was a behaviorist.Ĭognitive psychology studies the mind and assumes that humans possess the capacity to think and organize thoughts in their mind. It also strives to predict and control behavior, which was shown in the reference video – the unconditioned stimulus, the meat powder and the neutral stimulus, the tuning fork, were associated and produced a conditioned response of salivating, gradually increasing till only the sound of the tuning fork causes the response of salivation. Behaviorism deals primarily with observable behavior and completely banishes internal processes or events like introspection and thinking because they were subjective. Pavlov was one of the key behaviorists, and his experiment on classical conditioning proves it so. According to some textbooks, “classical conditioning is a phenomenon to describe psychological phenomena strictly in terms of observable stimuli and responses,” and is frequently used by behaviorists who believe in behaviorism (regarded by many as a branch of functionalism). This was because, according to Pavlov, the dog had been classically conditioned to salivate at the sound of the tuning fork. After repeated testing, Pavlov found that the dog would even salivate at just the sound of the tuning fork without being presented with food later.
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