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Pavlov's dogma still valid, 100 years later Physiologist's work revolutionized thinking on behavior and biology
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A hundred years ago, while studying how food physically stimulates
dogs' digestion, Russian physiologist Ivan P. Pavlov discovered
something he didn't expect. Even when he only tempted the animals
with meat, they still salivated in anticipation.
That chance observation led to the series of experiments that put
the phrase "Pavlov's dogs" in the same popular realm as Einstein's
theory of relativity or Freud's subconscious.
His work showing that the animals could be conditioned...
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HOW SWEET IT IS THE SUGAR WATER FESTIVAL FEATURES A TRIO OF SOUL SINGERS, AND A WOMAN- CENTERED THEME
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; Anyone with more imagination than money knows about sugar water. It's just a pinch or two, maybe even a spoonful, of sugar in a glass of water. Yet it's a homemade treat for the tongue, a little sweet succor to stave off the bitterness of a hard day. That's why "Sugar Water" seemed a perfect name
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Scientists still learn from Pavlov's dogs
The Boston Globe
; A hundred years ago, Russian physiologist Ivan P. Pavlov discovered that when he tempted dogs with meat, but didn't feed them, they still salivated in anticipation. Pavlov had been studying how food physically stimulates dogs' digestion, but this chance observation led him to conduct a different
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The use of an unpleasant sound as the unconditional stimulus in aversive Pavlovian conditioning experiments that involve children and adolescent participants
Behavior Research Methods
; Ethical considerations can prohibit the use of traditional unconditional stimuli (USs), such as electric shocks or loud tones, when children or adolescents participate in aversive Pavlovian conditioning experiments. The present study evaluated whether an unpleasant sound provides a viable
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Evolution of an elemental theory of Pavlovian conditioning
Learning & Behavior
; Kenneth Spence (1936, 1937) formalized a quantitative, elemental approach to association theory that has had a broad and dominating influence on learning theory for many years. A set of challenges to the basic approach has spurred the subsequent evolution of elemental theory in various ways. Four
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Pavlov's dogma 100 years later Scientists still making the mind-body connection
The Boston Globe
; A hundred years ago, while studying how food physically stimulates dogs' digestion, Russian physiologist Ivan P. Pavlov discovered something he didn't expect. Even when he only tempted the animals with meat, but didn't feed them, they still salivated in anticipation. That chance observation led to
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