Classical Conditioning By Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov was a russian scientist that created the groundbreaking experiment that created Pavlovian conditioning, or classical conditioning. Pavlov researched dogs to understand how the body breaks down food into chemicals that can be absorbed into the bloodstream. He also researching the digestive processes of animals over long periods of time, by observing their salivating habits. He would observe the amount of saliva of the animals when served different types of foods and the frequency of the meals. After making numerous observations about the silvatory habits of the dogs, he started to notice that some of the animals would start to salivate before the food was even placed before them. Pavlov called this “psychic secretions” and claimed
There are times when people hear the buzz or sound of the phone that is far off, but still proceed to check their phone after a few moments of wondering is someone has tried to reach them, even though they know their phone did not make the sound. This is an example of Trace conditioning: When the conditional stimulus appears before the unconditioned stimulus with a pause in between. There are times that the effects of one stimulus can overshadow the effects of another stimulus. For example, someone might be arguing over text messages with someone and not want to look at their phone out of anger of the argument, but have a different person text them. The text tone is ignored and completely overshadowed by the person’s anger toward the person in the argument, which is an example of overshadowing. Latent inhibition is the appearance of a stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus interference with that stimulus ability to become conditioned stimulus. For example, There might be someone that texts a person at the same time everyday, but the time of day does not affect when the person checks their phone, only the buzz or ring of the conditioned stimulus brings their attention to their