Ivan Pavlov Research Paper

The behavioral aspect of phychology is very important to understanding how people act. “Ivan Pavlov was the Russian physiologist that was able to demonstrate that dogs could associate something as neutral such as the ring of a bell could trigger the salvation of a dog.” (Hockenbarry) This was a very immense contribution to phycology because it was able to show future psychologists that people are also able to connect a neutral object with an upcoming event. A person may associate the siren of a police car with something that has gone wrong. Whether it was something you did wrong or something another person did that you need to get out of the way for. “Ivan was an amazing psychologist who believed that he discovered he discovered the mechanism, which all behaviors are learned.” (Hockenbarry) Ivan was a great …show more content…
Pavlov was born Sep. 14, 1849, where is dad was a priest and taught him to grow up in the church where he would attend school. When he turned 21 he was old enough to finally enroll in a school that offered natural science and grew a passion for the subject. Ivan at this time was on the rise to the fame. Later in life “he presented his doctor's thesis on the subject of, “the centrifugal nerves of the heart”’. (Nobleprize) This brought a new concept called nervism, a part in the heart that was corresponding to the circular system and the reflexes a person has to certain activity they are preforming. Pavlov has contributed a lot to natural sciences by this time. He was able to find a place called, “Institute of Experimental Medicine”. He was able to stay at this institute for many years studying more phycology. After all the years pass one of his most important attributes was his study in 1895. This study was involving animals and the salvation glad. Showing the dog a