Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Experiment With Dogs
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Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment with dogs
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) came up with and demonstrated a form of learning known as classical conditioning. "Classical Conditioning" is defined as "a process of learning by temporal association in which two events that repeatedly occur close together in time become fused in a person's mind and produce the same response" (Comer, 2004)
In a classic laboratory setting Pavlov took a hungry dog and presented it with food. The automatic response to this unconditional stimulus is that the dog would begin to salivate. He then paired the food with the sound of a bell. The sound of the bell was a neutral stimulus that did not cause the dog to salivate. The dog salivated to the paired food and the sound of the bell. After many presentations of the food and the bell, Pavlov was able to present just the sound of the...