Everybody knows about Pavlov’s dogs—the pooches who taught us about conditioning by being trained to salivate at the sound of the bell. But what kind of dog did he use?

Pavlov conducted experiments on this, associating different stimulus with the presence of food. No, he did not use a bell.Pavlov used a metronome, setting it going just before the dogs were fed ...

Pavlov's dog experiments played a critical role in the discovery of one of the most important concepts in psychology: Classical conditioning, sometimes called Pavlovian conditioning. The funny ...

Pavlov's experiment and its association between positive and neutral stimuli became the foundation of classical conditioning theory. Eventually, Pavlov linked these behavioral associations to humans.