Ivan Pavlov
He was born in a small village in this country
What is Russia?
He was most concerned with this type of psychology
What is behavioral or behaviorist?
He studied this at Harvard University after a failed attempt at studying literature
What is psychology?
The name of the first mass produced motor vehicle
What is the Model T?
A fallacy is an error in this
What is logic?
He was most interested in studying this. (It's what happens after you eat a meal).
What is digestion?
He was elected president of this association in 1915
What is the American Psychological Association?
He developed the ideas of "operant conditioning" by using this animal
What are pigeons?
His campaign for better roads eventually led to this highway system which is still the envy of the world.
What is the interstate highway system?
This type of fallacy is very common in conspiracy theories (the opposite of objectivism)
What is subjectivism?
a reflex in the autonomic nervous system that Pavolov trained his dogs to do by ringing a metronome
What is salivate?
His most famous experiment included a baby and this animal often found in labs
What is a rat?
What is a white rat?
He developed this controversial device which was a controlled-environment chamber for infants. His second daughter spent much of her babyhood in one.
What is a baby box
Ford instituted industrial mass production, but what really mattered to him was this.
What is mass consumption?
The latin word for a personal attack. Literally, to a man.
The learning process by which a dog's nervous system comes to associate the sound of the metronome with the food, for example.
What is "conditioning"?
What is eugenics?
The name for the type of conditioning that shapes behavior; different from "Classical conditioning" where an existing behavior is shaped by associating it with a new stimulus
What is "operant conditioning" or "shaping behavior"
What is the color black?
Begging the question generally involves a statement of the form, "this is true because it's _____"
What is true?
Despite being at odds with the Russian government for his outspoken nature, he won this prize for his research on digestion
What is the Nobel Prize?
His theory, with its promise of the possibility of change, and even improvement fit in will with this theme often studied in English classes throughout American High Schools
What is The American Dream?
He used this animal to develop behavioral studies. It is also the animal in Winston's Room 101.
What are rats?
Perhaps his greatest contribution ever
What is the $5-a-day minimum-wage?
The latin term for a false cause often used in politics. For example, "After my opponent took office, the economy plummeted. A vote for me is a vote for restoring the economic engine of this country."
What is Post Hoc?