04 03 2012 I Psychology study of behavior and thought A Thought is assessed via behavior II When did humans first become interested in the behavior of animals A Hunting B Domestication 1 First animal to be domesticated III Important players A Aristotle 1 Laws of associative learning 2 Classification of animals a 540 animal species b scala natura natural scale i in terms of intelligence B Descartes 1 Mechanistic view of behavior a Reflex mediates response to a stimulus b Dualism humans have involuntary responses as well as free will 2 Lead the way to animal neurophysiology C British Empiricists empiricism how we acquire ideas through experience association mental link or bond between two ideas 1 Locke 17th century 2 Hume 18th century 3 Berkeley 18th century D Into the lab 1 Ebbinghaus 19th century a First to use the terms learning curve and forgetting function b Nonsense syllables and recall 2 Pavlov 20th century a Documented stimulus stimulus associative learning 3 Thorndike 20th century a Stimulus response associative learning IV Physiological basis of behavior A Behavior arises as a result of physiology B Level of analysis 1 Nervous system neurons process and encode stimulus input and execute response output 2 Endocrine system secrets hormones into the blood stream to modulate and orchestrate important behaviors