Pavlov’s Enduring Legacy to Behavior Therapy
Conditioning experiments conducted by Pavlov and his students in the early part of the last century continue to provide for a comprehensive database essential to modern scientific psychology in the present century, and the work of Pavlov has contributed enormously to the founding and advancement of behavior therapy. Although two of the founders of behavior therapy, Eysenck and Wolpe, emphasize different elements of the Pavlovian paradigm, it is clear that the conceptualization and the treatment of psychopathology, especially in the area of anxiety responses, owes much to the systematic research in the Pavlovian conditioning tradition.
Pavlov’s model of neural functioning, sensible in the context of the early science of neurology, has had little relevance for the foundation or advancement of behavior therapy. As Wolpe (1996) summarizes, “there is a chilling irony in Pavlov not realizing that experimental neuroses were a phenomenon within his very own territory—a function of conditioning”(p. 104). Nevertheless, Pavlov’s related hypotheses concerning the importance of personality types has contributed to research on the interaction between
Pavlov’s Enduring Legacy to Behavior Therapy
Conditioning experiments conducted by Pavlov and his students in the early part of the last century continue to provide for a comprehensive database essential to modern scientific psychology in the present century, and the work of Pavlov has contributed enormously to the founding and advancement of behavior therapy. Although two of the founders of behavior therapy, Eysenck and Wolpe, emphasize different elements of the Pavlovian paradigm, it is clear that the conceptualization and the treatment of psychopathology, especially in the area of anxiety responses, owes much to the systematic research in the Pavlovian conditioning tradition.
Pavlov’s model of neural functioning, sensible in the context of the early science of neurology, has had little relevance for the foundation or advancement of behavior therapy. As Wolpe (1996) summarizes, “there is a chilling irony in Pavlov not realizing that experimental neuroses were a phenomenon within his very own territory—a function of conditioning”(p. 104). Nevertheless, Pavlov’s related hypotheses concerning the importance of personality types has contributed to research on the interaction between
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