His ideas played a large role in the behaviorist theory of psychology, introduced by John Watson around 1913. Pavlov was held in extremely high regard in his country -- both as Russia and the ...

But in this theory, the environment plays a large part in learning. We model the behavior of the people ... In the case of Pavlov’s dog, for example, the physiologist Ivan Pavlov found that ...

Pavlov's theory of conditioning is essentially someone learning how to do something through repetition and rewards. The repetition of appreciation reinforces the behavior. With reinforcement ...

Todes sheds new light on how Pavlov came to his theories of conditional reflex, his most enduring legacy. Pavlov's early attempt to 'black box' the psyche in the physiological processes of ...

He took the notion of conditioned reflexes developed by Ivan Pavlov and applied it to the study of behavior. Watson first presented his ideas at psychological meetings between 1908 and 1912 ...

For example, in Pavlov's classic experiment ... important implications for explaining and motivating human behavior.