Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov was born on 14th September, 1849 and has died on 27th February, 1936 (2014) Pavlov’s Biography article. Pavlov was not a psychologist himself and despite of the fact that he has disliked the field of psychology, Pavlov has made a major contribution to this field and especially within behavioural area of psychology (Cherry, 2016c). Pavlov was well known for the discovery on reflexes and his study of behaviour…

of individual’s behaviour is learnt through ‘association’. Classical conditioning was discovered by Ivan Pavlov a Russian physiologist, in 1902. He was born on 14th September 1840 and died on 27th February 1936. Pavlov discovered classical conditioning through his work with dogs. He noticed that at the sight of food, the dogs would salivate. After he noticed this, when the food was brought, Pavlov would ring a bell at the same time, the dogs would salivate. After a while, the dogs would start…

Learning theories are central to the discipline of psychology, therefore, impossible to separate the history of learning theories from the history of psychology. Learning defined as a lasting change in behaviours or beliefs that result from experience, the ability to learn provides every living organism with the ability to adapt to changing environments (Skinner, 1938). Learning theories evolved to separate into two perspectives. First, the behaviourist perspective argues that learning be…

potent biological stimulus becomes expressed in response to a previously neutral stimulus, achieved by repeated pairings of the neutral stimulus and the potent biological stimulus that evokes the desired response. This was idea was made famous by Ivan Pavlov, best known for his experiments with dogs. Pavlovian conditioning, also know as classical conditioning, became the basis for the foundation of Behaviorism.…

Article Title: It’s Not Just About Salivating Dogs! Author: Ivan Pavlov Date of Study: 1927 Hypothesis: Ivan Pavlov believed that if a dog was exposed to a specific stimulus while being fed, the dog’s brain would associate the stimulus with the food; due to this association, the stimulus alone would prompt the dogs to salivate. Variables: The independent variables, or the variables being manipulated and tested, are the various stimuli that Pavlov used to ingrain a response in the dogs: the…

Biological factors that are relevant to the success of Students academics in the classroom are classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning, behaviour modification and token economies. Personality consists of those relatively stable permanent characteristics and behaviours that are unique to an individual, Personality can reflect a person academic performance because personality results from people striving to achieve their potential. Social influences that relate to…

Creative Arts Therapy, specifically psychodrama or drama therapy has the potential to revolutionize care of patients suffering from emotional trauma including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drama therapy is a group activity developed by the psychiatrist Jacob Moreno who used “enactments of real-life situations to reveal the attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and values that underlie social interactions, thus deepening our understanding of them” (Leveton). Given the universality, and ease of…

is the person or animal didn’t realize they learned an idea until they use it later on in life. We must be careful of what we do or say because the activities we demonstrate may be repeated. Classical conditioning was accidental discovery by Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist while studying the digestion of dogs. Classical conditioning can be described as a set of procedures used to observe how a person or animal learns how to events relate to each other. The four types of classical…

identified forms of learning, associative and cognitive, both are controlled by the brain. Specifically, classical and operant conditioning are two methods of associative learning models that psychologist Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner heuristically contributed to the understanding of human behavior. Ivan Pavlov’s significant contribution was fortuitously discovered, since his initial intent was to study salivation and was analyzing a dog’s response to meat when he observed a learning…

examine the differences and similarities between classical and operant conditioning and examine situation where neither operant nor classical conditioning are present. Classical conditioning is most normally combined with Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov. It was through his investigation on digestion in dogs that…