Pavlov: Theory, Experiments, & DogBy Charlie Huntington, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with conditioning were a big inspiration for the behaviorist approach. How did a physiologist make such a contribution to psychology?
As a human being, I knew that the sound of my dad’s car meant that he was close by, but could Skipper really know that? If Dad had driven home a rental car for some reason, I might have known to associate his return with a different sound, but Skipper would have been taken by surprise. (I don’t think he even understood that Dad was returning in a car at all.) For an understanding of how Skipper would learn that a random sound—the engine of Dad’s car—meant that Dad was nearly home, we can turn to the seminal work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, whose experiments with dogs, as we will see, are foundational to modern psychology.
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