However, after a few such trials, he began playing the metronome without giving them food. Pavlov trained his dogs to start salivating in response to all sorts of stimuli, but in contrast to many popular accounts, never a bell, according to Daniel. So he conducted an experiment wherein every time he fed his dogs, thus generating the unconditioned response of salivation, he would also play a metronome, * a neutral stimulus that wouldn’t cause any salivation on its own. It was clear to him that dogs didn’t have to be taught to salivate when they saw food. He spent the rest of his life working to refine this theory. One day, he noticed that his dogs began salivating as soon as they heard the footsteps of the assistant approaching with the food. In the 1890s, Pavlov was researching the salivation in dogs in response to being fed. This instance, of watching the dogs display the same response even for objects or events associated with food as opposed to the food itself, changed the course of his research. Let’s decode that jargon with the famous Pavlov dog experiment. Pavlovs Dogs by Saul McLeod published 2007 Simply. One day, he noticed that his dogs began salivating as soon as they heard the footsteps of the assistant approaching with the food. Directions: Read the article below about the experiments by Ivan Pavlov and his contributions to psychology. Let’s decode that jargon with the famous Pavlov dog experiment. He is most known for his work in classical conditioning, which is described as * “learning to associate an unconditioned stimulus that already brings about a particular response (i.e., a reflex) with a new (conditioned) stimulus, so that the new stimulus brings about the same response.” Ivan Pavlov * is a famous guy among physiologists.