Salter Chapter 4

Question 1

The conditioned reflex: 3 fundamental processes

Answer 1

Excitation

Inhibition

Disinhibition

Question 2

Will Power

Answer 2

Where there is a conditioned reflex, there is no free will

“Will power” is dependent on our previously learned reflexes (alluded to in class)

Question 3

Excitation

Answer 3

Excitation=basis for life, action is key to survival

Emotional problems cannot be reasoned out of with thought; we must be trained out of it

Everything is natural, under the circumstances; UCS in environment/circumstance→UCR

We act in accordance w/ our conditioning

We do not control ourselves, rather we are controlled by our habit patterns and histories; habits and emotions determine our thoughts

We only have volition from our habits

Personality is dependent on feeling, based on emotional training

Question 4

Individual Differences, Men and Women

Answer 4

Women are guided more by feeling/excitation

Men are more inhibited in emotional expression and are therefore more likely to seek therapy
AS: “Men suffer more pressure from the world”

Question 5

Neurosis

Answer 5

Result of inhibition of natural impulses

Question 6

Salter’s conception of the key to happiness

Answer 6

Basic inhibitions to permit living in society, but no extra inhibition to interfere with happiness