What Pavlov's famous experiment taught us about learned behavior Even if you don't know a whole lot about psychology, you've probably heard of "Pavlov's dogs" or "Pavlov's bell." The phrases often ...

Maybe next year, Barry. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov stumbled on the theory of classical conditioning (or the ‘Pavlovian response’) entirely by accident while researching dogs ...

A well-known example of learning is Ivan Pavlov’s famous experiment, where a dog learns to associate the sound of a bell with food. This type of learning is called classical conditioning and ...

While researching digestion in dogs, Ivan Pavlov noticed that the dogs began to drool as soon as they saw the white coats of the people who fed them; before they could even see or smell their food ...

Ivan Pavlov was born in a small village in central Russia. His family hoped that he would become a priest, and he went to a theological seminary. After reading Charles Darwin, he found that he ...

Classical conditioning, famously demonstrated by Pavlov’s dogs, involves forming passive associations between stimuli—like linking the sound of a bell with the anticipation of food.