Classical conditioning was first demonstrated by a physiologist named Ivan Pavlov in the early 1900's. Through his experiments with dogs, Pavlov ascertained that a dog would salivate at the sight of an experimenter who was fed it, whether or not the experimenter actually had any food to feed to the dog. Pavlov noted that the dog associated the experimenter with the food. ...

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