How dogs taught us about conditioned responses
Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs revealed classical conditioning, demonstrating how repeated associations can link neutral stimuli to involuntary, learned responses in both animals and humans.
In the late 1890s, Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov noticed something fascinating: his dogs salivated not just at food, but at the footsteps of his lab assistants. This accidental discovery led him to systematically pair a neutral sound, like a bell, with food. Soon, the dogs began salivating at the bell's ring alone, even without food.
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