Ivan Pavlov was born in a small village in central Russia. His family hoped that he would become a priest, and he went to a theological seminary. After reading Charles Darwin, he found that he ...

This behavioral learning method was first studied in the late 19th century by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. In the 1890s, Pavlov was experimenting with dogs, ringing a bell whenever they were fed.

Simply put, it is learning through association. The most widely known example of classical conditioning is Pavlov’s dog. The neurologist Ivan Pavlov observed that his dog began salivating at the ...

In 1894, Ivan Pavlov summarized the physiological state of knowledge about digestion in this way: The digestive canal is in its task a complex chemical factory. The raw material passes through a ...

Training your pets comes down to classical conditioning. If Ivan Pavlov could teach a dog to salivate on command, surely you can use the same techniques to teach them to ask to go out.