Benefits Of Pavlovian Conditioning

The Helping Project Pavlovian conditioning or more commonly known as classical conditioning is a behavioral association. Classical conditioning is a behavioral association between a naturally occurring events and an environmental stimulus. Think training your dog how to sit or roll over it’s the same concept. Actually it is called Pavlovian conditioning because of Ivan Pavlov. Ian Pavlov’s work actually started as a study on the digestion of dogs. Specifically the relationship between salivation and digestion process in the dogs stomach. He realized that the process was related and had similar pattern to the nervous system. Without salivation, the stomach didn 't get the message to start digesting. Pavlov wanted to see if external stimuli could affect this process, so when he started to ring a bell when he fed them. When he would ring the bell the dogs knew there was food coming and this would trigger salivation. When Pavlov would ring the bell without feeding the dogs he found that they would still salivate. He also found that even after he stopped ringing the bell when he fed the dogs, if rang a bell randomly after a while …show more content…
A subconscious form of classical conditioning would be our association with the color red. When were little we sit in the car and watch our parents drive and see them stop at red lights. We see them stop at stop sign, which are red, slow down when the car in front red lights come on. By the time we turn fifteen and get our learners permit we already know what we need to do at a red light or stop sign without having to be told. We just know what do because without knowing it, we just spent fifteen years being trained for that moment when we see a stop sign or red