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Pavlov found that for associations to be made, the two stimuli had to be presented close together in time (such as a bell). He called this the law of temporal contiguity. If the time between the con…
Pavlov's dog experiments accidentally led to one of the greatest discoveries in psychology, Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning. Learn how this theory is used today.
Experiments on theoretical issues in conditioning have mostly been done on vertebrates, especially rats and pigeons. However, conditioning has also been studied in invertebrates, and very important data on the neural basis of conditioning has come from experiments on the sea slug, Aplysia. Most relevant experiments have used the classical conditioning procedure, although instrumental (operant) conditioning
Pavlov’s dog experiment was designed to study the process of classical conditioning. He wanted to understand how dogs learn to associate a neutral stimulus (such as a bell) with a meaningful stimulus (such as food) and …
In Pavlov's experiment, the ringing of the bell became the conditioned stimulus, and salivation was the conditioned response. Essentially, the neutral stimulus transforms into the conditioned stimulus.
Pavlov's Dog Experiments. Pavlov came across classical conditioning unintentionally during his research into animals' gastric systems. Whilst measuring the salivation rates of dogs, he found that they would produce …