Stimulus And Response Psychology
In pavlov s famous experiment the stimulus was food and the response was salivation.
Stimulus and response psychology. Such models conceptually tie together stimulus and response. He believed that all learning depended on the strength of the relationship between the stimulus and the response. Stimulus response s r compatibility is the degree to which a person s perception of the world is compatible with the required action.
The stimulus response model is a characterization of a statistical unit such as a neuron as a black box model predicting a quantitative response to a quantitative stimulus for example one administered by a researcher. In particular the belief is that a subject is presented with a stimulus and then responds to that stimulus producing behavior the object of psychology s study as a field.