What Pavlov's famous experiment taught us about learned behavior Even if you don't know a whole lot about psychology, you've probably heard of "Pavlov's dogs" or "Pavlov's bell." The phrases often ...

Maybe next year, Barry. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov stumbled on the theory of classical conditioning (or the ‘Pavlovian response’) entirely by accident while researching dogs ...

Since Pavlov's original conditioning studies, a key question has been whether this extinction process erases the memory for the original fear conditioning, or instead lays down a new memory that ...

Every day we form countless new associations among objects and contexts. When these associations carry emotional valence, such as in Pavlovian fear conditioning, learning is rapid and persistent. In ...