So far, I've never heard a good concise explanation. How would you answer? Don't "wikipedia" this...do it on your own. Thanks a bunch.
2006-08-24 04:27:05 · 13 answers · asked by Melissa T 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Pavlov did an experiment with his dog by ringing a bell and giving the dog a treat, later he would ring the bell and the dog would come running, but not get a treat.
It's something about contitioned response.
2006-08-24 04:30:38 · answer #1 · answered by cynthetiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pavlov's dogs were conditioned. Every being with a consciousness is conditioned from the time it is born until it dies. A stimulus is followed by an event which is greeted by a reaction in the subject. Soon, if the stimulus is presented, the reaction will immediately follow, whether the event takes place or not.
Examine your own life and you will see how conditioned you are.
I condition quickly. For example, last year on August 29th my world was turned upside down by a hurricane. After the storm, I was anxious about it raining. I didn't want it to rain. Well it didn't for a long time and then, when it finally did, my cats and I went to pieces. After we saw nothing bad happened we are now merely slightly nervous at loud lightening and thunder. We are recovering from that 'conditioning stimulus'. I also have noticed how all the vegetation looks in my area. I can remember that right before the storm, this is how things looked. I feel slightly unsettled at this until I give myself a good talking to.
2006-08-24 04:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a pretty simple psych concept. It has to do with positive reinforcement conditioning.
Essentially the experiement went as such:
The dog was presented with a treat, and began salivating at the site of it (as most dog's do). Whens being given the treat, a bell was rung.
This was repeated several times to condition the reponse of salivation from the dog, when presented with both a treat and the bell.
Finally, the bell was rung only, and no treat was displayed or given. The dog still salivated.
This is classical conditioning, and essentially creates a link in the brain which associates one sensation with another. The dog sees a treat and salivates. However, now the dog hears a ringing bell and salivates. This is because he associates that sound with being presented a treat, as he had not heard it when no treat was there.
2006-08-24 04:32:47 · answer #3 · answered by AresIV 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pavlov performed surgery on dogs so that their salivary glands came out of the side of their cheeks rather then into their mouths so he could prove his theory of conditioned response by observing salivatory response.
The dogs in the experiment were given food as a bell was rung. After a short while of receiving food as the bell was rung, Pavlov decided to only ring the bell and observed that the dogs produced saliva in expectation of receiving food.
Pavlov was no better or worse than today's animal experimenters.
If I ever find his grave, I will delight in urinating on it...
2006-08-24 04:42:31 · answer #4 · answered by CC...x 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pavlov would ring a bell when he fed his dogs
after some time he would ring the bell and the dogs would salivate without the food being present
2006-08-24 04:30:12 · answer #5 · answered by Mike 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The theory of conditioned thinking or reflex responses where an action is undertaken not by actively thinking about performing an action, but by being 'programmed' to undertake that action in exchange for a 'reward'.
2006-08-24 04:34:50 · answer #6 · answered by Velociraptor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not heading for a slap when I say this I hope, but I completely agree with Char. I have the sincerest respect for her well researched answer that however is conscise and clear, and I can certainly find myself in her conclusion, if not the source.
2006-08-24 04:45:50 · answer #7 · answered by McAtterie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u stim a dogs p.... at the same time as he is licking the honey off ur vulllvy , next u show him the vull he 'll get a hardon and get on and into ur vull. and thrust deep deeper for a tie of his swollen knot inside ur vjni. ........... . conditional so to say, reflex actions.# a man sees u and u show him the 2 tips and he'll mount u.
2006-08-27 08:19:49 · answer #8 · answered by kamesvari i 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the others are right but what they are forgetting is that he trained his dog so WELL to eat ONLY when he rang the bell that when he died they starved to death even though there was food because no one rang a bell
2006-08-24 04:37:37 · answer #9 · answered by frogger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It explained why cats would come running when you opened a can and scream that they were hungry, even if it wasn't a can of cat food.
2006-08-24 04:34:17 · answer #10 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋