Pavlov Salivation In The 1890s

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In the 1890s Russian psychologists Ivan Pavlov noted that his canine subject begin to salivate whenever an assistant entered the room. Because of his observations Pavlov suggested the salivation was a learned response for the dogs. Pavlov came to the conclusion that the dogs were responding to to seeing the assistants White lab coats that the animals had come to associate with food.
The results of the experiment was that we learned that the animals generally learned to associate stimuli that are related to their survival. This is an example of natural condition reflux. If an animal eats something with a vanilla flavor and then eat something else that is poisonous that makes him sick, the next time they see something that has a vanilla flavor

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