Pavlovs dogs

Question 1

What was the aim?

Answer 1

To see whether dogs can learn behaviour via association

Question 2

what was the procedure?

Answer 2

• Salivation tubes were tied to the cheeks of the dogs to collect saliva
• When dogs were provided with food only ( UCS) they salivated ( UCR)
• Before introducing the food, a bell (NS) was rang just before the food was introduced and this happened each time the food was given

Question 3

What were the results ?

Answer 3

The dogs began to salivate each time the bell rang, meaning they associate the food with the bell

Question 4

what was the conclusion?

Answer 4

Dogs can learn via association of a neutral stimulus and a unconditioned stimulus to create a response

Question 5

How is it generalisable?

Answer 5

• Dogs and human share the same genes and traits so the realists can be generalised
  OTOH- study was taken place on dogs so cannot be generalised to humans

Question 6

How is it reliable?

Answer 6

Standardised procedure, the same salivation tubes, bell - can be easily repeated
OTOH-Dogs Behaviour is unpredictable so is therefore less reliable

Question 7

How is it applicable?

Answer 7

-helps to understand how behaviour is learnt via association
OTOH- research took place on dogs

Question 8

how is it valid ?

Answer 8

• Dogs were placed into an odourless room - extraneous variable of smells were removed
  OTOH- lacks ecological validity