ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the proceeding chapters of this book. The book discusses the famous work of LP. Pavlov. It deals with the motor conditioned behavior, which was not included in Pavlov's theory. The book talks about the phenomenon called "switching" which consists of an appearance of a conditioned reaction different than that originally trained to a definite conditioned stimulus. It describes the results of extensive studies of switching by E. A. Asratyan and his associates. The book provides a description of the situational effects on the behavior of human patients after frontal lobectomy. It focuses on conditioning of electrical activity of the brain in both animal and human subjects. The book also describes the conditioning of functions of various internal organs such as heart rate, increase or decrease salivation, vasoconstriction or vasodilation, and others.