Ivan Pavlov

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Ivan Pavlov

• Nanya Jackson
• Ashley Lynch

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Behaviorist

• Pavlov was a key theorist in the behavioral
  approach to learning. He won the Nobel Prize in
  1904 in Physiology or Medicine.
• A behaviorist is one who sees learning from a
  behaviorist perspective, and views all behavior
  as a response to external stimuli.

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Conditional Reflexes(or Classical Conditioning)

• Reflex responses (like salivation) that occur
  when one is presented with a certain stimulus
  unrelated to the reflex. (Pavlovs dog
  experiment)
• idea of "conditioning" as an automatic form of
  learning became a key concept in the developing
  specialism of comparative psychology, and the
  general approach to psychology that underlay it,
  behaviorism.

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Classical Conditioning to Treat Phobias

• So-called Pavlovian training has been used in
  many fields, with anti-phobia treatment as but
  one example. An important principle in
  conditioned learning is that an established
  conditioned response decreases in intensity if
  the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented
  without the unconditioned stimulus. This process
  is called extinction.
• In order to treat phobias evoked by certain
  environmental situations, such as heights or
  crowds, this phenomenon can be used.
• This process is called systematic desensitization.

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Educational Impact

• Pavlovs work paved the way for a new, more
  objective method of studying behavior.
• Conditioning forms the basis of much of learned
  human behavior.
• His discovery of the physiology of digestion had
  a great impact on behavioral and learning theory.

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