Danger words

Mind, conscious, subconscious, will, memory, ego, hunger, thirst, intelligence, etc.

Ignaz Semmelweis (1818 -1865)

Hungarian physician

• Puerperal fever in maternity ward
• Mortality rates: First clinic (~10%) vs. second clinic (<4%)
• First clinic did autopsies
• “Cadaverous particles” on hands
• Chlorinated lime hand wash

Ivan Pavlov

respondent conditioning

• Russian physiologist
• Studied _gastric function in dogs
• Created system of measurement for ___Salivary secretion____________ (wet vs. dry food)
• Noticed something interesting....
• Site of food = ____saliva____
• Smell of food = ___saliva____
• Sound of food prep = ___saliva__

“Psychic secretion”

Why Pavlov dropped everything and studies “psychic” secretion

• Reflex = biological
• Process at hand = environmental