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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born September 14, 1849; he was a Russian physiologist and psychologist who devised the concept of the conditioned reflex. Pavlov also formulated a similar conceptual theory, highlighting the significance of conditioning and associating human behavior with the nervous system. He won the 1904 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking research on digestive secretions.

His earliest studies were based con theology, soon he dropped the religious studies and started with science. He was interested in the possibility of using science to improve and change society.He studied medicine at university under a famous physiologist of the time, S. P. Botkin, who taught him about the nervous system. In 1890, Pavlov took charge of the Department of Physiology at the newly created Institute of Experimental Medicine. He was also named Professor of Pharmacology at the Imperial Medical Academy. He died on February 27, 1936; from natural causes.

While Ivan Pavlov was not a psychologist, and reportedly disliked the field of psychology altogether, his work had a major influence on the field, particularly on the development of behaviorism. His discovery and research on reflexes influenced the growing behaviorist movement. Other researchers used Pavlov's work in the study of conditioning as a form of learning. His research also demonstrated techniques of studying reactions to the environment in an objective, scientific method.

Ivan Pavlov was a firm believer that human behavior could be explained better in physiological terms rather than in mentalist terms. He was known for conducting experiments with animals. One of his most famous experiments was when he used the feeding of dogs to establish a number of his main ideas.

The experiment was tracking the dogs’ saliva production to the ringing of a bell. Before feeding them Pavolv would ring a bell, that way getting the dogs use to creating saliva when they heard bells, even though there was no food. The increase in salivation, even though there was no food involved, was a conditioned reflex. This is an example of classical conditioning, it is a response that the organism has acquired through associating the bell to food. Behaviorist theory has applied these landmark ideas for the explanation of human behavior. ​

While Ivan Pavlov was not a psychologist, and reportedly disliked the field of psychology altogether, his work had a major influence on the field, particularly on the development of behaviorism. His discovery and research on reflexes influenced the growing behaviorist movement. Other researchers used Pavlov's work in the study of conditioning as a form of learning. His research also demonstrated techniques of studying reactions to the environment in an objective, scientific method.

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