CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Pavlov tested that food produced saliva but the sound of a tuning fork did not. This showed that the tuning fork was a neutral stimulus for the dogs.

Detailed explanation-2: -The dogs salivating for food is the unconditioned response in Pavlov’s experiment. A conditioned stimulus is a stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response. In the described experiment, the conditioned stimulus was the ringing of the bell, and the conditioned response was salivation.

Detailed explanation-3: -EX: In Pavlov’s dog experiment, the stimulus is the sound of the tuning fork after the dog has been conditioned because that tone now produces the response of salivation.

Detailed explanation-4: -During conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus (food) is presented repeatedly just after the presentation of the neutral stimulus (bell). After conditioning, the neutral stimulus alone produces a conditioned response (salivation), thus becoming a conditioned stimulus.

Detailed explanation-5: -Salivation is one such conditioned reflex; it occurs only when a person is conscious of the presence of food or when one imagines food.