Classical Conditioning - Pavlov's Dogs

Aim

• Pavlov wanted to study how the cerebral cortex works and to do so he started with natural associations between stimuli and reflex responses in organisms. Pavlov chose dogs as they have some higher-order thinking and are manageable during testing.
• He wanted to look at reflexes and work out pathways in the brain, looking for a mechanism linking to reflexes in the cerebral cortex.

Procedure

• Pavlov chose to study the salvation reflex because he noticed that dogs salivated at surprising…