The reply of a physiologist to psychologists
The reply of a physiologist to psychologists
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DOI:
10.1037/h0069929
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发表时间:
1932-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Pavlov, IP
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作者:
Pavlov, IP
The first two parts of the paper are specific replies to criticisms of the conditioned reflex by Guthrie and Lashley. The last part is an attack on certain tendencies of psychology which Pavlov feels violate the aims of successful investigation. In Part I, he objects to the psychologist's accepting the principle of conditioning as ultimate and applying it to every form of learning, so that all the individual features of learning are explained as one process, without experimental verification. He objects to several of Guthrie's reformulated explanations of aspects of the conditioning process, as delayed conditioning, irreversibility of temporal order of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, extinction of the conditioned reflex, the gradual intensification of the conditioned affect during its formation, and conditioning to other stimuli in the neighborhood. In Part II, he states what he regards as the fundamental elements of the reflex theory, ie, determinism, analysis and synthesis, and the adaptation of function to structure. He then attempts to refute Lashley's arguments against localization and specificity of structure-function relation. The main points are (1) that Lashley's interpretation of the reflex arc concept is too rigid, so that his experimental tests of it have been inadequate, and (2) that he has offered nothing in place of it except remote analogies to embryonal tissue. In Part III, Köhler's Gestalt interpretations of animal behavior are criticized, as are also the alternative explanations of the purposivists.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)