Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's Study With Dogs

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russia, on September 26, 1849, the son of a poor parish priest, from whom Pavlov acquired a lifelong love of physical labor and for learning. He loved to work with his father in gardens and orchards and this early interest in plants lasted his entire life. At the age of nine or ten, Pavlov suffered from a fall that affected his general health and delayed his formal education. When he was eleven he entered the second grade of the church school in Ryazan. In 1864 he went to the Theological Seminary of Ryazan, a school for training priests. There he studied religion, classical languages, and philosophy, and he developed an interest in science. However, after being introduced to the works of Charles Darwin and Ivan Sechenov, Pavlov decided to transfer to the University of St. Petersburg to gain knowledge about …show more content…
In Pavlov's study with dogs, the food within the dog's mouth is the unconditioned stimulus, and the salivation that results is the unconditioned response. Pavlov used a metronome as the conditioned stimulus which he rang first, then fed the dogs. This pairing would eventually establish the dog's conditioned response of salivating to the sound of the metronome. After repeating this procedure several times, Pavlov was able to remove the food and by only ringing the bell the dogs would salivate. Since the bell alone now produced the salivation, the association had been conditioned. Pavlov continued to present the metronome with any pairing with the food until the salivating no longer occurred. This elimination of the salivation is known as extinction. However, waiting a few days and then reintroducing ticking metronome resulted in the dogs once again salivating to the metronome, which Pavlov named this spontaneous
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