Ivan Pavlov Article

What was Ivan Pavlov best known for?

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Ivan Pavlov developed an experiment testing the concept of the conditioned reflex. He trained a hungry dog to salivate at the sound of a metronome or buzzer, which was previously associated with the sight of food. He later developed an approach that emphasized the importance of conditioning in studies relating human behaviour to the nervous system.