In Ivan Pavlov's famous classical conditioning experiment in experimental psychology dealing with simple forms of learning, a dog could be trained to salivate when it heard a bell.

That phenomenon, known as classical conditioning, is at the heart of most animal behavior studies today. A couple of weeks ago, Pavlov’s name came up on this blog in a surprising context.

Pavlov's dogs were no different, and salivated every time they ate. Later in his experiment, Pavlov started sounding the bell to his dogs but did not present the food, and the dogs still salivated.

Psychologist John Watson, based on Pavlov’s experiments, initially proposed the model of classical conditioning as an explanation of human behavior. He got a bit carried away with his theory ...

First, the author of the book (Anthony Burgess) noted that sometimes, there can be accidental side effects to classical conditioning. Pavlov actually discovered this himself way back in the famous ...

Pavlov's conditioning experiments with dogs are one of the most well-known studies in scientific history, and now research from the University of Western Australia (UWA) has shown that plants can ...