Pavlov Experiment

• in his experiment what was the UCS

  food
• in his experiment what was the neutral stimulus

  metronome
• what was the unconditioned response to the food before conditioning?

  salavation
• after conditioning what was the conditioned stimulus?

  metronome
• after conditioning what was the conditioned response?

  salavation
• what was the aim of Pavlov's study?

  to study salivation as a reflex in dogs
• what was the method he used to carry out experiment?

  food paired with a ticking metronome and other stimuli, after a number of pairings retested to see if the NS alone (ticking metronome) could trigger salivation
• what were the results?

  dogs could be conditioned to salivate in response to a metronome if it has been paired with food on about 20 occasions
• what does this say about dogs relflex of salivation?

  its a reflex they are born with, but they can be conditioned to produce salivation response to environmental stimuli
• what is Pavlov's experiment all about?

  classical conditioning
• what is bad about the generalisability of the study?

  Pavlov used dogs and so cannot be generalised as humans have a more developed emotional and cognitive dimension
• what is good about the generalisability?

  has been possible to demonstrate classical conditioning in humans and other animals
• what is good about the internal reliability?

  good internal reliability - used carefully controlled procedure
• what is good about the external reliability?

  good consistency of findings as it has been replicated
• what is good about the validity?

  there were no demand characteristics since the participants were dogs
• what is negative about the validity?

  dogs are not usually conditioned to salivate to a bell and therefore lacks ecological validity - not ever day situation
• what is the application for this experiment?

  classical conditioning has been applied in - treating alcohol and rug conditions, treatment of phobias and for advertising
• what are the ethics of the experiment?

  the dogs were subjected to surgery to be able to collect the saliva from their glands to be measured