Hearts racing, his hand on your hand, the world spins out of control as you forget everything around you. His passionate kiss sends chills through your body and you begin to get aroused. The next day you find yourself applying a minty chapstick, and your heart begins to race, you feel the warmth of his hand on your hand, and the world spins out of control as you forget everything around you. But how can this be? He’s not even there beside you and it’s as if you’ve just been kissed. This can all be explained through Ivan Pavlov’s theory of classical conditioning, which allows us to associate different stimuli to their responses. Ivan Pavlov was a Russian scientist who discovered the process of classical conditioning as a physiologist (Psychology …show more content…
Pavlov was initially studying the salivation of dogs resulting from digestion, but as he performed his research, he noticed that the dogs would begin to salivate at the sight of him entering the room even if no food was present. This led Pavlov to create a series of experimentations in which he used the sound of a bell to condition the response of the dog. He started by sounding a bell each time the food was given to the dogs and found that the dogs would start salivating instantly after hearing the bell. After a course of time, Pavlov began ringing the bell without giving any food and discovered that the dogs continued to salivate at the sound of the bell even in the absence of …show more content…
The five factors are the neutral stimulus, the unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response (Dr. Sy, Lecture 02/08/16). The neutral stimulus was the ringing of the bell with no salivation. The unconditioned response was the dog’s natural salivation when seeing the food. The unconditioned stimulus was the sight of the food itself. As the neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus are correlated together, a conditioned stimulus results. The conditioned stimulus becomes the ringing of the bell and the dog salivating because of the sound. With these results, Pavlov created his theory of classical