AP PSYCHOLOGY

LEARNING

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The man who studied man’s best friend ____
A
SIgmund Feud
B
B. F. Skinner
C
John B. Watson
D
Ivan Pavlov
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science.

Detailed explanation-2: -What was Ivan Pavlov best known for? Ivan Pavlov developed an experiment testing the concept of the conditioned reflex. He trained a hungry dog to salivate at the sound of a metronome or buzzer, which was previously associated with the sight of food.

Detailed explanation-3: -Classical conditioning was first studied in detail by Ivan Pavlov, who conducted experiments with dogs and published his findings in 1897. During the Russian physiologist’s study of digestion, Pavlov observed that the dogs serving as his subjects drooled when they were being served meat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist best known in psychology for his discovery of classical conditioning. During his studies on the digestive systems of dogs, Pavlov noted that the animals salivated naturally upon the presentation of food.

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