Think about your favorite food (green mango with vinegar, salt
and bagoong)Is your mouth watering?If so, its because you are
conditioned
Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, first described classical
conditioning in 1899 while conducting research into the digestive
system of dogs. He was particularly interested in the role of
salivary secretions in the digestion of food and was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1904.
Stimulus- some action that produces activity in an
organismResponse- reaction of an organism to a
stimulusAssociationsmental connections between two stimuli
Form of learning where 1 stimulus (thought of food) creates a
response (mouth watering) in response to another stimulus(actual
food)
This occurs when the two stimuli have been associated with each
other
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He knew that dogs would salivate when meat was placed on the
tongue because salivation aids in digestionHe discovered that dogs
began to salivate before they received the meat
WHY???
Because the dogs had learned from experience that people
entering the labs clinking of food trays meant that food was
comingCould they learn to salivate to any stimulus that signaled
meat???
Pavlov thought yes, so he had to prove it
Rang a bell, then put meat powder on dogs tongueDog began to
salivate in response to meat powder
Pavlov repeated this several times
He rings the bell but does not follow it with meatDogs salivated
anyway
They learned to salivate to the bell alone
US=Unconditioned Stimulus
A stimulus that causes a response that is automatic, not
learnedeg. Food
