Who Put the Cat in the Puzzle Box

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Who Put the Cat in the Puzzle Box?

• or
• Whats so Exciting about a Slobbering Dog?

Early Animal Psychology
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Antecedent Influences andEarly Behaviorism

• Early influence on animal psychology
• George John Romanes
• Animal Intelligence (1883)
• Anecdotal method and the ladder of mental
  function
• Introspection by analogy
• Conwy Lloyd Morgan
• Ethology
• Law of parsimony (Lloyd Morgans Canon)
• Clever Hans
• Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) tropism

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More Focus on Animals

• Willard Small and the rat maze
• Charles Henry Turner there are more
• animals than rats and horses!
• Margaret Washburn
• Robert Yerkes work with apes and more! Army
  Alpha, Army Beta

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Pioneers of Behaviorism

• Edward L. Thorndike (1874-1949)
• Ivan P. Pavlov (1849-1936)
• Vladimir M. Bekhterev (1857-1927)

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Edward L. Thorndike

• Connectionism
• Stamping in (trial-and-error learning, Bain)
• Law of Effect
• Law of Exercise
• The puzzle box

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Laws of Effect and Exercise

• Trial and error
• Consequences establish association
• Repetition
• strengthens association
• increases probability
• it will continue

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Ivan Pavlov and Dog

• Impact
• objective physiological responses
• a new model for Watson
• Unit of analysis
• Psychic reflexes
• Conditioned reflexes
• function of coronary nerves
• primary digestive glands
• conditioned reflexes

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The Experimental Paradigm

• Innate/unconditioned reflex and response
• conditional reflex and response

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ClassicalConditioning

• Changes in
• the brain as a
• result of CC

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The Result of the Paradigm
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Vladimir Bekhterevs Reflexology

• The reflex--basis of behavior
• associated reflexes
• motor conditioning response--striped muscle
• Compared with Pavlov

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Other Influences

• The Animal Rights Movement
• Functional Psychology