Ivan Pavlov
Sandra L. Cantu
Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russia. His father was Peter Pavlov, was the village priest from where Ivan Pavlov was born. Ivan Pavlov was raised with religious beliefs. He was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps. Due to an accident, he was not able to attend school until he was 11 years old. Even though he did not begin school at an early age he was a very bright student and exceeded in his studies. When he began his studies at the village
Ecclesiastical Seminary his focus was in religion. During his time in the Seminary he read the book “On the Origin of the Species” by Charles Darwin. The book made a tremendous impact on him, that he decided to drop out of the Seminary and enrolled at the University of Saint
Petersburg. He began to focus his studies in physiology. He continued his studies in a Medical
Academy where he earned his doctorate degree. He received a position as Director of Physiology
Laboratory at a clinic which gave him the opportunity to continue his work. His work and studies lead way to the studies in the area of psychology for many behaviorist.
Ivan Pavlov is considered a very important influential figure due to his work in the field.
He is one of the leading physiologist who is studied when a psychology student is coming into the field. He has received several recognitions for many of his works which include: the study of the nerves that lead to the heart, temperament, involuntary reflex actions, experiments of digestion and classical conditioning. In the early 1900’s he was presented with the Nobel Prize
Award for his contributions in the area of Medicine and physiology. His work in classical conditioning influenced others behaviorist such as John Watson to conduct research of classical conditioning in humans .
Ivan Pavlov is known for his research in classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs when we make an association between and environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus. (Kendra, 2012) Pavlov began his research of classical conditioning almost by accident as he was conducting research of the digestive system and the

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Sandra L. Cantu salivary glands of dogs. He began to notice there was increase in the dogs salivation even before the dogs were approached with food. Then, they began to notice that just the sight of the food was enough to increase salivating. Through further observations, it was noticed that when the dogs saw the food bowl, or even began to here the footsteps of the assistants, the dogs salivation would increase. Pavlov wanted to do further studies to find out what was causing the dogs to respond in such a way. This lead to the beginning in his research of classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov began sounding a bell whenever he would feed the dogs to see if it would produce the same response. He observed that if he sounded the bell right before he presented the dogs with the food they eventually made a connection between both. The dogs learned that whenever they heard the sound of the bell that meant food was coming. He called this learned behavior conditioned response because it needed to be taught vs. an unconditioned response which is not taught by comes naturally by instinct.
Ivan Pavlov continued his observations and learned that if he discontinued the sound of the bell the dogs would begin to dissociate the food and the bell and they would no longer salivate at the sound of the bell. The process had to be repeated several times in order for the unlearning to take place. If it wasn’t done repeatedly the learned response would still be there. The process of unlearning would have to be repeated and eventually the learned response would fade away and the association would be forgotten.
The conditioning process for which he is well known for has lead to a number of uses in the modification of behavior and to the treatment of some disorders. Its uses have been known to treat several disorders which include phobias. A phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation. (Kendra, 2012) Through Pavlov’s influence with classical conditioning,
John Watson began researching this theory in humans. He is known for his famous case study of Little Albert. In his study he shows how a child had no fear of several objects and animals at first sight, but once they were associated with a loud sound right before showing the child the animals, he was fearful of them. So, when patients have phobias they use classical

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Sandra L. Cantu conditioning to treat the phobias. A phobia is created when a person associates an object or situation with fear. In phobias patients are taught to replace the fear with relaxation techniques to overcome the anxiety. (Kendra, 2012, phobias) By using classical conditioning, they try to help patients by eventually eliminating the fear through the process of extinction. (Kendra, 2012)
We can observe classical conditioning in the real life setting. For example, as educators we have students who are fearful of several situations such as presenting in front of the classroom. We are afraid because we don’t know if we are going to do well in our presentation, or we are going to be teased. We can go ahead and help a child feel more comfortable by pairing them in groups of two and maybe arranging the room in such a way which will make them feel comfortable or relax. I can use myself as an example. I’ve always gotten nervous when I’ve needed to present. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to overcome that fear gradually because I’ve had to present in several occasions at my campus and at in-services and provided trainings to other people. I noticed that I felt comfortable at my campus because I knew the staff. When ever I had to provide a training I had the opportunity to work in teams.
I have always been responsible and gathered and prepared. It is different when you have other who can give you feedback to help you provide a great presentation. When we began these class
I began feeling anxious about the presentations we had to make. When you mentioned that for the second presentation we were going to work in groups, I felt a little more comfortable. I’ve had good experiences when I’m working with someone because I have the opportunity of going over the information and practicing it before hand to see if there is information that needs to be added or removed. The people I’ve worked with have motivated me and encourage me with words of encouragement. I’ve had good experiences working with groups and has helped me feel less nervous when presenting. When I was in the classroom and I had the students present I could relate to them. I tried to make them feel comfortable before the presentations began. I would talk to the rest of the class and would go over procedure about paying attention because we were going to learn very important information. I would give them words of encouragement

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Ivan Pavlov began his work with classical conditioning in animals. His work inspired other behaviorist to see how classical conditioning worked in humans. It is impressive to see how over time his work is still being used today. I had studied Ivan Pavlov during one of my undergraduate courses and found it very interesting to do more in depth research to get a clear sense of how classical conditioning works and how it is still being used today. It was interesting to see videos about experiments conducted about classical conditioning . I have included three links in my references about how Ivan Pavlov began experimenting classical conditioning and two videos which give real life examples. This videos will help you see Ivan Pavlov began his work in classical conditioning and how we can relate it to a real life setting.
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