What was Pavlov's dog about?

Answer 1

Pavlov taught his dogs that when the bell was rung, dinner was served. He observed that after a time, as soon as the bell was rung, the dogs began to salivate. His conclusion was that you can be taught to react to stimuli that has actually nothing to do with the reaction other then to trigger it.

Answer 2

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936)

Pavlov became interested in studying reflexes when he saw that the dogs drooled without the proper stimulus. Although no food was in sight, their saliva still dribbled. It turned out that the dogs were reacting to lab coats. Every time the dogs were served food, the person who served the food was wearing a lab coat. Therefore, the dogs reacted as if food was on its way whenever they saw a lab coat.

In a series of experiments, Pavlov then tried to figure out how these phenomena were linked. For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were fed. If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food. After a while, at the mere sound of the bell, they responded by drooling.

Pavlov's discovery was that environmental events that previously had no relation to a given reflex (such as a bell sound) could, through experience, trigger a reflex (salivation). This kind of learnt response is called conditioned reflex, and the process whereby dogs or humans learn to connect a stimulus to a reflex is called conditioning.

Answer 3

Pavlov's experiment with his dog was all about conditioning.
he conditioned his dog to know when the bell rang he was going to be fed.
when he rang the bell and did not feed the dog, he salivated.

Answer 4

Its about conditoning (traing animals/people to act a certain way at a certain situation). This is more of a psych question.