you've probably heard of "Pavlov's dogs" or "Pavlov's bell." The phrases often describe situations where someone responds to a stimulus like they've been trained to do so. That's exactly where ...

In simple terms: Pavlov would ring a bell prior to feeding his dogs (his test subjects); the dogs were quickly conditioned and came to associate the ringing of the bell with the presentation of food.

Conducted in 1919-1920, a nine-month-old baby was subject to a conditioning experiment to make him fear certain animals. Carried out by psychologist John B. Watson and his grad student Rosalie Rayner, ...

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov stumbled on the theory of classical conditioning (or the ‘Pavlovian response’) entirely by accident while researching dogs’ digestive secretions.

Pavlov also offered physicians a new therapeutic product: natural gastric juice produced by his “factory dogs.” By World War I, proceeds from selling bottled gastric juice had increased the ...

The study indicates our addiction to smartphones reflects Pavlov's conditioning experiments, with our brains responding ...