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S-R
(redirected from Stimulus-response)

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S-RStimulus-Response (Pavlovian psychology)
S-RSet-Reset


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Although the experiments dealt with relatively simple stimulus-response memory in rats, "there's good reason to believe that similar mechanisms will be involved in higher forms of memory formation in humans," Sweatt says.
The former sought to explain all of human behavior in terms of stimulus-response pairings, and tended toward the view that "any event could be a conditioned stimulus for any reaction," so that human nature could in principle be remade according to any favored utopian scheme as long as the appropriate environmental conditions were established.
Specifically, the criticism is pointed at those who advocate and use the stimulus-response approaches to treatment.
 
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