INAN PAVLOV

BORN AND LIVED

• born September 14, 1849
• Pavlov was born in a small village in Ryazan, Russia

EARLY LIFE

• His earliest studies were focused on theology
• reading from Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species had a powerful influence on his future
• 1870 he began studying the natural sciences at the University of Saint Petersberg.

CAREER

• Pavlov's primary interests were the study of physiology and natural sciences.
• He helped found the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine
• He termed this response a conditional reflex
• Pavlov also discovered that these reflexes originate in the cerebral cortex of the brain.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Russian Academy of Sciences and the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSYCHOLOGY

• his work had a major influence on the field, particularly on the development of behaviorism.
• Other researchers utilized Pavlov's work in the study of conditioning as a form of learning.
• His research also demonstrated techniques of studying reactions to the environment in an objective scientific method.
• known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.
• classical conditioning- learning that occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus

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