Pavlov's influence on American psychology: completing the puzzle.

Abstract

In this paper, a historical approach to the influence of Pavlov on American psychology is presented. After consider what we call the "received view": Pavlov's influence on American psychology is seen mainly, perhaps solely, as related to behaviorism, we present an alternative view in which the influence of the Russian is interpreted in relation to Florence Edna Mateer (1887-1961), William Horsley Gantt (1892-1980) and Howard Scott Liddell (1895-1962).