Protopopov's ideas on habit formation and their relation to the Pavlovian theory of higher nervous activity.

The theories of Viktor Protopopov (1880–1957) on habit formation are discussed. Protopopov started, in 1929, to repeat E. L. Thorndike's animal experiments on habit acquisition. In order to determine the conditions needed for habit formation, he used the natural experiment technique, in which dogs...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Psychology Vol. 112; no. 3; pp. 437 - 449
Autor principal: Windholz, George
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Publicado: University of Illinois Press Fall 1999
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