What was Pavlov trying to prove with the bell and his dog experiment?
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I saw your question I answered it you give me points I see your question I answer it You give me points. OK. I am just teasing. But seriously. Conditioning and reinforcement is a psychological behavior noted in both animals and people.
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He was conditioning the dog to realize that when he rang the bell he received a treat!
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The funny part about Pavlov's experiment was that it wasn't initially about the conditioning at all. He was studying the effects of salivation on digestion when he accidentally stumbled across this phenomenon. Except the dogs were initially salivating to the researchers' foot steps (and not the bell). He initially scrapped his project because he couldn't get the dogs to stop salivating to the foot steps but decided later to continue his studies because he realized how important this accidental discovery was. But the end result demonstrated that something normally causing a behavior (such as food leading to saliva production) could be paired with something that doesn't normally produce this behavior (a bell doesn't cause saliva production) to eventually produce that behavior (the bell eventually led to the production of saliva). The key point here is that there has to be a natural cause and effect relationship initially before you pair it with something unrelated.
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he was not trying to prove anything, but as ninja bartender noted, he was studying digestion processes. Classical Pavlovian conditioning is a simple form of associative learning where a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through pairings with an unconditioned stimulus, once conditioned the conditioned stimulus produces a conditioned response. in Pavlov's case the conditioned stimulus was bell, the unconditioned stimulus was food, and conditioned response was salivation. you can think in your own life how this learning may exist. maybe you see a particular car and it reminds you of someone, and the conditioned response may be positive (happiness) or negative (anger).
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