Reflex learning may be defined restrictively or not, depending on one's scientific and
philosophical viewpoint. In principle, reflex learning can arise from any network of adaptive …

FRoM A~ oryr the turn of the century forward, the researches and writings of IP Pavlov and
EL Thorndike opened a new historical epoch in behavioral science. Both the substance of …

In most textbooks, the conditioned reflex is defined as:" A consistent reaction of the body to a
previously indifferent stimulus, reproducing an unconditioned reflex (the clas-sical …

IP Pavlov has shown that conditioned reflexes are selective both with respect to conditioned
stimuli and to conditioned reflexes elicited by those conditioned stimuli. At the neuronal …

Towards the end of the last century, IP Pavlov introduced conditioning of motor and
alimentary responses as a technique for rigorously analysing the neural basis of learning …

Control systems, presumed to affect the flow of information, play a central role in many
cognitive theories (eg, Kahneman, 1973; Neisser, 1967; Posner, 1975). The systems are …

In a volume concerned with the field of comparative psychology, the conditioned reflex
merits separate discussion for the following reason. It has become a leading concept of …

One basic form of associative learning and memory m mammals appears finally to be
yielding up its secrets to neuroscience: classical conditioning of discrete behavioral …

A restatement of the position of those who support a conditioned reflex theory of behavior, in
the light of current criticism of this theory. The assumptions of the reflex theory are (1) …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes Pavlovian conditioning as the transfer of control
of reflexes (unconditioned responses or URs) from stimuli that elicit them unconditionally …