Ivan Pavlov
By:
Monica Alsup
Stephanie Roark
Samantha Williams
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born in Russia and was a physician, psychologist, and physiologist. He was well known for his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research on the digestive system. He later died in February of 1936. His biggest and most well known accomplishment was for his experience now known as classical conditioning. Pavlov did most of his research studies with dogs and focused on the gastric function of dogs. Pavlov was a very structured and organized man. His daily routine habits always occurred at the same time slot every day. He ate lunch at a specific time every day, he went to bed at a specific time every day, and even fed his dogs at a specific time every day. He later changed his behaviors and suffered from insomnia when his son died in the White Army.
In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response by its......
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