Over the course of his famous conditioning experiments, what did Pavlov's dogs learn? A. They learned to eat food at the ring of a bell. B. They learned to ring a bell in order to get fed. C. They learned to eat when they began salivating. D. They learned to salivate at the sound of a bell.

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22 June, 10:38

Over the course of his famous conditioning experiments, what did Pavlov's dogs learn? A. They learned to eat food at the ring of a bell. B. They learned to ring a bell in order to get fed. C. They learned to eat when they began salivating. D. They learned to salivate at the sound of a bell.

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Evangeline · Answer 1

D. They learned to salivate at the sound of a bell.

Explanation:

Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist. In 1890's he researched abut the salivation in dogs in response to food.

He put a small tube into the dogs cheek to measure the saliva when the dogs were fed. It gave birth to the concept of classical conditioning.

While measuring the salivation rates of dogs he found that they produced saliva whenever they smelt or heard food in expectation of feeding.

Classical conditioning is also known as Pavlovian conditioning. It is learning through association. It explains that if two stimuli are linked together to produce new learned response in an animal or person.

He kept the dogs in an experimental chamber and presented them with meat powder. He collected the saliva by surgically implanting tube in their cheek and noticed that the dogs begin salivating after hearing the clicking noise produced by the device that distributed the meat powder to dogs even before the meat powder was presented.