IVAN PAVLOV Savannah-Jade Middle & Sian Hill

PAVLOV’S INITIAL IDEA…The Russian psychologist was born in 1849 and died in 1936 and had ideas about conditioning people and animals. His theory is known as Classical Conditioning and is based on his experiment on dogs. The time that he fed his dogs was the same time that the church bells rang and he began to notice that when they heard the bells they started to salivate because they knew that food was coming. He tested this theory by ringing a different bell to see if the dogs salivated then. They did so this backed up his theory.

WHY THIS HAPPENS…The bell ringing was the Conditioned Stimulus (CS) and the food was the Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS). The sound of the bell and the arrival of food triggered the Unconditioned Response (UCR) which is the salivation. After a while the sound of any bell produced the saliva so it was then a Conditioned Response (CR). Pavlov himself said “Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.”

HOW IT LINKS TO CHILDREN…It is reflected in school as when the bell rings in school, it will mean its break time, its repeated every day so the children are conditioned through life even by teenagers and adults. Doing this repeatedly means the bad behaviour the child has presented with soon becomes eliminated. The good behaviour will be rewarded with stickers or golden time, but the bad behaviour will be treated with detention or telling off.The children learn what behaviour is expected of them and what they will get in return if they behave or not.

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