Pavlov's dogs

PAVLOVS DOGS EXPERIMENT

Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS) = Food

Unconditioned Response (UCR) = Salivation

Neutral Stimulus (NS) = Metranome

Conditioned Stimulus (CS) = Metranome

Conditioned Response (CR) = Salivation

UCS = UCR

food = salivation

UCS + NS = UCR

food + metranome = salivation

CS = CR

Metranome = salivation

Also, the Dog associated the food with the person feeding it, so salivated when saw the person because they thought they were getting food.

This is just like when the Dog paired the food with the metranome.

Controlled conditions

• Sound proof lab so there was no distractions
• No contact with the researcher feeding them

Just the metranome without the food made the dog salivate. Pavlov concluded that the dogs had been conditioned a new response to a new stimulus

Generalisability:

Transposition of findings from animal studies to humans will give concern as the two are very different. However, Pavlov worked on Dogs' (reflex) responses and thought that they clearly compared to human autonomic (reflex) responses.

Reliability

Standardised procedures, so they were replicable

• Same apparatus
• Dogs do the same thing
• Sound proof
• No contact

Consant results, as Pavlov continued to test and retest his hypothesis and got the same results.

Application

Pavlov had identified and tested a new way of learning.

It can be applied to us through things like Aversion therapy for Alcoholics (associating pain with what they desire).

UCS                              =          UCR

ematic drug                               Vommitting

UCS            +    NS       =         UCR

ematic drug +  Alcohol             vommitting

CS                                =          CR

alcohol                                     vommitting

Furthermore, it explains the aquisation of phobias through classical conditioning principles and…