CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ivan Pavlov is famous for his contributions to psychology, he was actually a
A
botanist
B
zoologist
C
physiologist
D
historian
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pavlov’s major legacy to behavior therapy was his discovery of “experimental neuroses", shown by his students M.N. Eroféeva and N.R. Shenger-Krestovnikova to be produced and eliminated through the principles of conditioning and counterconditioning.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pavlov completed his doctoral thesis, entitled “The Centrifugal Nerves of the Heart”, in 1883. The following year, he travelled to Leipzig to study under supervision of German physician Carl Ludwig before returning in 1886.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was an eminent Russian physiologist and psychologist who devised the concept of the conditioned reflex. He conducted a legendary experiment in which he trained a hungry dog to drool at the sound of a bell, which had previously been related to the presentation of food to the animal.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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