Question

pavlov was able to condition dogs to salivate to the sound of bell. food alone will cause dogs to salivate, but when the food was paired with a bell, eventually, the food alone would cause salivating.

Answer 1

Pavlov conditioned dogs: bell (neutral stimulus) + food (salivation) → bell alone = salivation (learned response through association).

Yes, that's a classic example of classical conditioning, often associated with Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist. In his experiments, he noticed that dogs naturally salivated when presented with food. He then introduced a bell, which initially had no inherent response from the dogs.

However, by consistently pairing the bell with the presentation of food, eventually, the dogs began to associate the bell with the arrival of food. Over time, the dogs started to salivate at the mere sound of the bell, even when food wasn't immediately present.

This demonstrated how a neutral stimulus (the bell) could elicit a response (salivation) through association with an unconditioned stimulus (food).

Pavlov's work became foundational in understanding how associations between stimuli can lead to learned behaviors.