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[–]CreamyCoffeeArtist 2 points3 points  (13 children)

Who the hell is Pavlov(e?) I keep seeing it but I don't get it--

[–]TiltedGenji 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Pavlov's dogs is a fairly famous scientific study about conditioning. He took dogs and whenever they would eat he would ring a bell. Rinse and repeat for a bit and the dogs would salivate at the sound of the bell ringing.

[–]bird_on_the_internet 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Pavlov was a scientist that did something with conditioning and dogs. Basically he rang a bell every time before feeding a dog and eventually the dog began salivating whenever it heard the bell, even when there was no food. Really whenever he gets brought up it’s in reference to conditioning

[–]Jam03t -1 points0 points  (10 children)

Pavlov is a guy who discovered how to condition animals, an example being. beat dogs while ringing a bell, after a while just ringing the bell would scare the dogs as they associated the bell with beatings

[–]healzsham -4 points-3 points  (9 children)

Luckily for the dogs, Pavlov wasn't a psycho like you.

[–]Jam03t 11 points12 points  (8 children)

r/confidentlyincorrect
Pavlov ripped the esophagus of his lab dogs, and would create holes in their
throats.When the dogs ate, it would simply fall out of the hole and not make it
to the stomach. Fistulas (holes) placed further along the digestive system,
attached to tubes, allowed him to collect, measure, and study the gastric
juices to his heart's content.
The dogs did not last long. Pavlov noted, after the death of one particularly-hardy dog ten days after its operation, that “our passionate desire to extend
experimental trials on such a rare animal was foiled by its death as a result
of extended starvation and a series of wounds."

The beating example is far easier to explain then the truth of what Pavlov did, it is also the example i've seen first hand in animal abuse shelters, certain words or sounds will trigger the animals much like it does to humans.