Pavlov 1927

• What type of conditioning did Pavlov use?

  Classical Conditioning
• What was his aim?

  To look at reflex behaviour and see if he could create pathways in the brain
• What was the unconditioned stimulus he used?

  The dog‘s food
• What was the unconditioned response?

  Salivation
• What was the neutral stimulus?

  The bell
• What was the unconditioned response?

  No specific response
• When the UCS (food) and the bell (neutral stimulus) were paired together, what was the response?

  Unconditioned response- salivation
• What was the conditioned stimulus?

  The bell
• What was the conditioned response?

  Salivation
• What were the results?

  The more similarity the dogs found between the neutral stimulus and the conditioned stimulus, the greater the amount of drooling
• Give 2 strengths of the study

  1.Controlled environment: results are objective And scientifically credible

  2.Reliability: repeated many classical conditioning experiments on dogs and continually found the CS would produce CR
• Give 2 weaknesses of the study

  1.Eco-logical validity: created an artificial environment of a chamber with most stimuli being controlled

  2.Had to make assumptions about what was happening in the cerebral cortex due to not having fMRI scans- hard to generalise to humans