Hi Lisa: I am going to defer to Chris Green's comments about the video.
I have seen the supposed full video three or four times and the contents strike me as odd.
It is clearly horrific to us in the 21st century but the contents seem unsystematic and more intended to shock rather than be a review of a topic to be presented to research and medical professionals, as is the supposed purpose of the film..
One example, Pavlov (in *Conditioned Reflexes* [Pavlov, 1927]) presented inhibition (and inhibitory conditioning) as one of the most important concepts to be understood in his analysis of brain function. (See the title of the chapters in Pavlov, 1927.) Yet, inhibition is barely mentioned in the video. I find this lack to be very odd given Pavlov's views.
Other parts of the video also seem quite odd in lack of indicating Pavlov's analyses (e.g., irradiation and concentration) and (what Pavlov would take to be among his most convincing demonstrations) the experiment of Shengar-Krestovnikova (a.k.a the "experimental neurosis" experiment in Lecture 17).
Similarly, disinhibition is not mentioned in the video. Another important effect for Pavlov to indicate the conflict between excitation and inhibition.
At this point, I would suggest caution to wait for verification by historians. Or, following the old mongrelized phrase, 'on the internet no one knows you are a dog.'
Ken --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected] Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------- On 1/14/2014 7:19 PM, Lisa Hager wrote:
I saw some film footage about Pavlov's experiments on children while I was watching a propaganda piece published by the Church of Scientology (The Age of Fear). I wanted to see what types of claims the scientologists were making and so I looked further into the claims about Pavlov. I was disappointed to find out that the scientologists were right about Pavlov. He did create salivary fistulae in children to study their salivary responses. No surprise that he replicated the results he found with dogs. The BBC series The Brain: A Secret History has some of this footage. I found the first episode of the 2011 series on vimeo. The Pavlov footage is about 5 or 6 minutes in http://vimeo.com/18608588. I found it disturbing to watch and I wondered if others were familiar with this research. Lisa D. Hager, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Social Sciences Division Spring Hill College 4000 Dauphin St. Mobile, AL 36608 (251)380-3055 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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