Pavlov
Dogs and bells
Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist (1849–1936) who discovered classical conditioning while studying digestion in dogs.
He found that dogs began salivating at sounds they associated with food, not just food itself.
His name appears in Pavlovian response—any automatic, unthinking reaction to a stimulus: Mention pizza and I have a Pavlovian response to check my phone for delivery apps.
Involuntary stimulus response
- stimulusWhat prompts a reaction
- responseAnswer to stimulus
- bellHollow resonating instrument
- salivationMouth producing digestive fluid
dog · classical · unconditioned · conditioned · reinforcement · association · learning · behavior
Operating without intervention
- programmedSet with instructions
- predictableAble to be foreseen
- trainedTaught a skill
- triggerWhat initiates action
knee-jerk · instinctive · mechanical · unthinking · habitual · reactive · unconscious · manipulation
Slavic masculine name
- RussianEastern Slavic language
- physiologistStudies how bodies function
- NobelSwedish prize surname
- digestionBodily food breakdown
Petersburg · 1904 · researcher · pioneer · academy · gastric · secretion · laboratory
reflex
Involuntary stimulus response
salivation · dog · classical · unconditioned · conditioned · reinforcement · association · learning · behavior · extinction
automatic
Operating without intervention
- programmedSet with instructions
- predictableAble to be foreseen
- trainedTaught a skill
trigger · knee-jerk · instinctive · mechanical · unthinking · habitual · reactive · unconscious · manipulation · obedience
Ivan
Slavic masculine name
- RussianEastern Slavic language
- physiologistStudies how bodies function
- NobelSwedish prize surname
digestion · Petersburg · 1904 · researcher · pioneer · academy · gastric · secretion · laboratory · surgical
- PsychologistsFreud, Jung, Piaget, Skinner, Maslow
- psychologypsychology, psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, clinical psychology
- Biology HistoryDarwin, Mendel, evolution, natural selection, cell theory
- Conditioningconditioning, classical conditioning, operant, reinforcement, stimulus
- Slavic SurnamesNovak, Kowalski, Kovac, Djokovic, Lewandowski
- Russian ScienceMendeleev, Sakharov, periodic table, Gagarin, Markov
PavlovB.F. Skinner
Behaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher
PavlovAbraham Maslow
Humanistic psychology pioneer
self-actualization · free will · human agency · self-determination
PavlovSigmund Freud
Carl Jung · psychoanalysis · introspection · phenomenology · unconscious mind
- Pavlov's dogClassically conditioned subject
- Ivan Pavlov
- Anna Pavlova