AbstractsPsychology

Conditioned and unconditioned reflexes and inhibition

by Donald Hebb




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Psychology.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1932
Keywords: Psychology.
Record ID: 1567394
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile119257.pdf


Abstract

Note: The purpose of this paper is to present a theory of the functioning of the synapse based on the exoperimental work of Sherrington and Pavlov, on reflexes and inhibitions. The implications of these for psychological theory, in some of its aspects, has been far from clear....