EXPERIMENTS - LEARNING - PAVLOV

Question 1

Who came up with the famous Classical Conditioning in what year?

Answer 1

Ivan Pavlov, 1902

Question 2

What did Pavlov realise and note about his experiment to do with the digestive system with dogs associating with the Classical Conditioning

Answer 2

• Pavlov realised that each time the technician fed the dogs, the dogs would salivate each time during mealtime
• He noted that the dogs would salivate when they heard the footsteps of the technician the one who fed them

Question 3

What was Pavlov’s hypothesis

He described it as?

Answer 3

That the dogs had come to associate the sound of the footsteps with the presence of food which he described as “conditioned reflex” in response

Question 4

What was Pavlov’s methods of his experiment

Answer 4

• Pavlov began ringing the bell for the dogs to come and eat the food
• He did this many times over

Question 5

What was Pavlov’s results of his experiment

Answer 5

Originally the dogs only salivated at the sight of the food

• However soon the dogs would drool on command with the sound of the bell, without the food present

Question 6

What was Pavlov’s conclusions of his experiment

Answer 6

• Pavlov had concluded the dogs had unconsciously associated the stimulus of the bell, with the stimulus of the food, resulting in the same response for both stimuli

Question 7

What was Pavlov’s aim?

Answer 7

He aimed to test his hypothesis by pairing food with a bell and seeing the resulting behaviour of the dogs