Ivan Pavlov discovered a learning process called "classical condition" at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Pavlov carried out an experiment on a dog to prove this theory. ... Pavlov slowly began to stimulate the dog with dog food for it to smell, each ringing the bell. Pavlov began to notice that if he rang the bell yet showed no food, the dog would begin to produce siliva in anticipation of it. ... This was followed by behaviourists; John Watson, Edward Thorndike and Beirs Frederick Skinner, carried on with Pavlov's theory of "classical conditioning" forming their own theories o...

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Presentation Ivan Pavlov, a Russian psychologist discovered classical conditioning. Pavlov was a physician who was studying gastric functioning in dogs by examining their saliva in various feeding conditions. During some of his experiments, Pavlov observed that the dogs began to salivate before they were even given any food. Upon further investigation, Pavlov discovered that the dogs salivated in response to hearing a sound from the mechanism that delivered the food. ... After further investigation, Pavlov realized that the dogs "learned" that every time they heard that sound, they were about...

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Before taking this course, I felt I had a decent understanding of personality theories because I had a vague idea of Freud's theory, I had heard about the Hierarchy of needs, I knew about Ivan Pavlov and Pavlov's dog, and I had even taken the Myers-Briggs test. ... Prior to taking the course, I had some knowledge of Ivan Pavlov and his studies on environmental influences on behaviors but I was unaware of B. ... Pavlov's theory entailed classical conditioning. ... My understanding of behaviorist theories was quite accurate prior to studying Pavlov and Skinner. ...

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Personality Psychology covers a huge field and one interesting aspect of it is personality. Personality by itself involves various issues. Some aspects are Psychoanalytic, Ego, Biological, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Trait, and Humanistic. Different types of behaviors are amazing to learn about, mai...

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The behaviorist approach began around the turn of the 20th century with Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning, which involved learning by association, and B.F Skinner's operant conditioning, which involved learning from the consequences of behaviour (Cullis, et al., 2002). ...

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