Close your eyes:

Think about your favorite

food (green mango with
vinegar, salt and bagoong)
Is your mouth watering?
If so, its because you are
conditioned

 Pavlov,

a Russian
physiologist, first
described classical
conditioning in 1899
while conducting
research into the
digestive system of
dogs.
He was particularly
interested in the role of
salivary secretions in
the digestion of food
and was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Medicine
or Physiology in 1904.

Stimulus- some action that

produces activity in an organism
Response- reaction of an
organism to a stimulus
Associationsmental
connections between two
stimuli

Form of learning where 1

stimulus (thought of food)
creates a response (mouth
watering) in response to
another stimulus(actual food)
This occurs when the two
stimuli have been
associated with each other

He knew that dogs would salivate

when meat was placed on the
tongue because salivation aids in
digestion
He discovered that dogs began
to salivate before they received
the meat
WHY???

Because the dogs had learned

from experience that people
entering the labs clinking of food
trays meant that food was coming
Could they learn to salivate to any
stimulus that signaled meat???
Pavlov thought yes, so he had to
prove it

Rang a bell, then put meat

powder on dogs tongue
Dog began to salivate in
response to meat powder
Pavlov repeated this
several times

He rings the bell but does

not follow it with meat
Dogs salivated anyway
They learned to salivate
to the bell alone

US=Unconditioned
Stimulus
A stimulus that causes a
response that is
automatic, not learned
eg. Food

UR=Unconditioned
Response
Automatic response
eg. Salivation

CR=Conditioned Response
Learned stimulus
eg. Bell