This is a very well-known study that actually appears in a popular comedy show called “The Office.” In the show one of the main characters, Jim, begins training his coworker, Dwight, with the sound of a computer shutting down. But what I find so interesting and honestly just amazing is that Pavlov taught the dogs to salivate to a bell. Then naturally without intent, the dogs learned to salivate to the assistant, therefore they created their own reflex. This may not sound interesting, but think about it this way, it’s common knowledge that in the beginning when the dogs salivated to the food it was considered a reflex. Pavlov rang the bell WITHOUT any food present and, as you probably assumed, the dogs salivated. After continuous repetition of this combination, Pavlov tried the bell on its own. So every time Pavlov feed the dogs, he also rang a bell while presenting the food. This response was learned, which is what started the actual experiment.Īfter Pavlov discovered that these dogs have the capability to learn different stimuli, he tried presenting the dogs with something other than the person who had been giving them food for the past two weeks- he used a bell. However, it came to the point where the lab assistant would approach the dogs and they would start to salivate, even though they didn’t have any food. As you can imagine, every time the lab assistant came out with food, the dogs would start to salivate…nothing fancy. The salivation was measured with a device attached to the dog’s mouth. Well, what happened was… Pavlov started with testing dogs on how much they salivated to the presence of food in a dog food bowl. From this theory he used classical conditioning to have dogs learn to salivate to just the mere sound of a bell. In 1902 psychologist Ian Pavlov tested a theory that dogs were equipped with certain responses in which they did not have to learn.
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