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Does the name Pavlov ring a Bell?

Published Friday, May 01, 2009

The Russian physiologist and psychologist, Ivan Pavlov performed some experiments on dogs to research gastric function. The now famous experiments in classical conditioning discovered dogs would salivate upon sensing a neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus) associated with food (unconditioned stimulus). Pavlov noticed that the dogs would salivate whenever someone wearing a lab coat entered the room. The technicians often fed the dogs a meat powder, so the dogs associated the coats with food and salivated upon seeing a lab coat. Pavlov later experimented with other conditioned stimulus such as the famous bell. One of the common elements of most ...

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