Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) worked in the behaviourist area of psychology. Behaviourist believed that while the inner workings of the mind could not be observed a person’s behaviour could.
Ivan Pavlov’s theory was based on ‘classical conditioning’. This theory has tricky terminology but in this post it will be simplified and explained in simplicity.
The mechanism of classical conditioning relies upon building an association between a neutral stimulus which is some aspect of the environment that does not produce a response and an existing unconditioned stimulus which is some aspect of the environment that does produce a response.
In Pavlov’s example these two stimuli are presented to the animal until the previously neutral stimulus (bell) acquires the same effect as the unconditioned stimulus (food), the ability to elicit a response. A new behaviour is not learned rather an existing behaviour now takes its place in response to a new stimulus (bell). This behaviour is now called a conditioned response (salvation) and the trigger a conditioned stimulus (bell).
If this is still too complicated look at how it is seeing in Pavlov’s experiment below. These are the 8 steps of the experiment.
Unconditioned Stimulus = Food Unconditioned Response = Salvation Neutral Stimulus = Bell No Conditioned Response = No Salvation Neutral Stimulus = Bell and then Food Unconditioned Response = Salvation Conditioned Stimulus = Bell Conditioned Response = Salvation
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