Ivan Pavlov

• Classical Conditioning


  A process of learning where a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response
• Ivan Pavlov

  • Developed classical conditioning through the use of dogs, food, and a bell
  • Proved that classical conditioning could be used to shift behaviour by making a neutral stimulus a conditioned one
• The Experiment

  1. BEFORE CONDITIONING: Dog has an unconditioned response to the unconditioned stimulus (dog drools at sight of food)

  2. DURING CONDITIONING: Neutral stimulus of bell is paired with dog food, dog associates bell with food

  3. AFTER CONDITIONING: Bell becomes a conditioned response, dog drools at sound of bell
• Unconditioned response


  Almost like natural instinct, a response to an unconditioned stimulus
• Unconditioned stimulus


  Something that naturally triggers a response
• Neutral stimulus


  A stimulus that the dog has no reaction to
• Conditioned response


  A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus