I) Psychology: study of behavior and thoughtA) Thought is assessed via behaviorII) When did humans first become interested in the behavior of animals?A) HuntingB) Domestication1) First animal to be domesticatedIII) Important playersA) Aristotle1) Laws of associative learning2) Classification of animalsa) 540 animal speciesb) scala natura (natural scale)i) in terms of “intelligence”B) Descartes1) Mechanistic view of behaviora) Reflex: mediates response to a stimulusb) Dualism: humans have involuntary responses as well as free will2) Lead the way to animal neurophysiologyC) British Empiricists; empiricism—how we acquire ideas through experience, association—mental link or bond between two “ideas”1) Locke, 17th century2) Hume, 18th century3) Berkeley, 18th centuryD) Into the lab!1) Ebbinghaus, 19th centurya) First to use the terms “learning curve” and “forgetting function”b) Nonsense syllables and recall2) Pavlov, 20th centurya) Documented stimulus-stimulus associative learning3) Thorndike, 20th centurya) Stimulus-response associative learningIV) Physiological basis of behaviorA) Behavior arises as a result of physiologyB) Level of analysis1) Nervous system: neurons process and encode stimulus input and execute response output2) Endocrine system: secrets hormones into the blood stream to modulate and orchestrate important behaviors04/03/2012I) Psychology: study of behavior and thoughtA) Thought is assessed via behaviorII) When did humans first become interested in the behavior of animals?A) HuntingB) Domestication1) First animal to be domesticatedIII) Important playersA) Aristotle1) Laws of associative learning2) Classification of animalsa) 540 animal speciesb) scala natura (natural scale)i) in terms of “intelligence”B) Descartes1) Mechanistic view of behaviora) Reflex: mediates response to a stimulusb) Dualism: humans have involuntary responses as well as free will2) Lead the way to animal neurophysiologyC) British Empiricists; empiricism—how we acquire ideas through experience, association—mental link or bond between two “ideas”1) Locke, 17th century2) Hume, 18th century3) Berkeley, 18th centuryD) Into the lab!1) Ebbinghaus, 19th centurya) First to use the terms “learning curve” and “forgetting function”b) Nonsense syllables and recall2) Pavlov, 20th centurya) Documented stimulus-stimulus associative learning3) Thorndike, 20th centurya) Stimulus-response associative learningIV) Physiological basis of behaviorA) Behavior arises as a result of physiologyB) Level of analysis1) Nervous system: neurons process and encode stimulus input and execute response output2) Endocrine system: secrets hormones into the blood stream to modulate and orchestrate important