Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (26 September 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. 1. Classical conditioning. Dogs salivated when they saw meat. That is a natural response. Pavlov wondered whether he could teach dogs to salivate when hearing a bell by associating the ringing of the bell with the appearance of meat. Eventually, dogs began to From his childhood days Pavlov demonstrated intellectual curiosity along with an unusual energy which he referred to as "the instinct for research".^[4] Inspired by the progressive ideas which D. I. Pisarev, the most eminent of the Russian literary critics of the 1860s, and I. M. Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, were spreading, Pavlov abandoned his religious career and devoted his life to science. In 1870, he enrolled in the physics and mathematics department at the University of Saint Petersburg in order to study natural science.^[1] Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904,^[4][5] becoming the first Russian Nobel laureate. A survey in the Review of General Psychology, published in 2002, ranked Pavlov as the 24th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.^[6] Pavlov's principles of classical conditioning have been found to operate across a variety of behavior therapies and in experimental and clinical settings, such as educational classrooms and even reducing phobias with systematic desensitization.^[7][8] From Wikipedia (Full Wikipedia article)