David Swift says: When I speak of learned reflexes, I'm also talking about responding to specific temperatures al a Skinner, but the Gettysburg Address is more what I have in mind.
[Krimel] I don't believe Skinner ever did any work on response to temperature and by the way on the last page of the chapter you link. Pavlov never considered himself to be a psychologist and I don't believe Skinner ever trained in or conducted research into physiology. The Gettysburg address has nothing to do with reflexes. [DS} What did you have for breakfast? You didn't know that there was going to be a test so you didn't study but you can still remember what you had for breakfast. You learned that information because of a simple reflex , I call the learning reflex, in response to the emotion you felt at breakfast. Burnt? yuck. Full English? yes. [Krimel] Call it what you want reflex action always involved the motor system. Episodic memory is what you are describing. [DS] You walk around all day learning all sorts of seemingly trivial stuff. Where did I park the car? What you had for breakfast is a flood of remembered feelings mostly visual and taste perceptions but also pleasure and perhaps nausea? I call that flood of feelings, reflexively produced in response to the question, "What did you have for breakfast?" a learned reflex. It's how we remember direct experience and recreate its effect on us. [Krimel] Memory is fascinating but it has nothing to do with reflexes. But would it be possible for you to give some of your extra carriage returns to DMB? They are in short supply in his posts but you seem to have way too many. Your posts are hard to read. Maybe it's just me and I am definitely the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to proofreading posts but I think of every post as a standalone document. These are dialogues and should read as such. It should be clear who said what when. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
