Pavlov biography
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ByBret McCabe
/PublishedWinter 2014Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, that giant of Soviet science, was supposed to be a priest. His father was. His father's father was an unordained clergyman in the rural town of Riazan in Central Russia, where Pavlov dock had served the Eastern Orthodox Church going back to Peter the Great. But when Ivan, born in 1849 as the first of nine children, entered theological school in 1860, Russia and especially its younger generation were swept up in a reform-minded, modernizing bloom. In 1861, Tsar Alexander II emancipated Russia's serfs, an estimated 23 million people, and progressive intellectuals grappled with new developments in politics, philosophy, and science. After reading Russian translations of physiologist Claude Bernard's lectures and George Henry Lewes' Physiology of Common Life (1859), as well as Russian physiologist Ivan Sechenov's Reflexes of the Brain (1
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Ivan Pavlov and His upptäckt of Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist best known in psychology for his discovery of classical conditioning. During his studies on the digestive systems of dogs, Pavlov noted that the animals salivated naturally upon the presentation of food.
However, he also noted that the animals began to salivate whenever they saw the white lab coat of an experimental assistant. It was through this observation that Pavlov discovered that by associating the presentation of food with the lab assistant, a conditioned response occurred. Pavlov was also able to demonstrate classical conditioning in his subjects by associating food with sound of a tone.
Learn more about Ivan Pavlov and his contributions to the field of psychology.
Overview
Pavlov discovered classical conditioning in the 1890s and published his results in 1897. The discovery had a reverberating influence on psychology. Pavlov's upptäckt had a major influence on
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
(1849-1936)
Who Was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov?
Ivan Pavlov abandoned his early theological schooling to study science. As the Department of Physiology head at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, his groundbreaking work on the digestive systems of dogs earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904. Pavlov remained an active researcher until his death on February 27, 1936.
Early Life and Education
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born on September 14, 1849, in Ryazan, Russia. The son of a priest, he attended a church school and theological seminary. However, he was inspired by the ideas of Charles Darwin and I.M. Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, and gave up his theological studies in favor of scientific pursuit.
Pavlov studied chemistry and physiology at the University of St. Petersburg and received the degree of Candidate of Natural Sciences in 1875. He then enrolled at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, completing his