answersLogoWhite

0

Because pavlov would feed the dog right after the tone. The dog came to understand that the tone meant food was coming, and would salivate in anticipation.

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

What else can I help you with?

Continue Learning about Psychology

Who was ivon pavlov?

Ivan Pavlov was a Russian psychologist who is famously known for his conditioning experiment involving a dog and a bell. What he did was train the dog to salivate by ringing a bell. To do so, Pavlov would place food in front of the dog, and ring the bell. Thus, the dog would salivate at the sight of the food and subconsciously at the sound of the bell. Through conditioning, Pavlov was able to repeat the process until the dog became accustomed to hearing the sound of the bell, and ultimately when the dog heard the bell ring, it would begin to salivate as it had learned to associate the sound of the bell with food, and food resulted in its salivation


How was pavlov able to get dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell?

Pavlov used classical conditioning. Initially, every time he rang the bell, he would give the dog food. The dog began associating the sound of the bell with receiving food. He was then able to ring the bell and make the dog salivate (thinking that it was going to be fed).


In pavlov's experiment on the salivary conditioning of dog the US (unconditioned stimulus)?

In Pavlov's experiment, the unconditioned stimulus (US) was the food that naturally triggers the dog's salivation reflex. This means that the food automatically causes the dog to salivate without any conditioning.


What is the difference between stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination?

A stimulus is an action or procedure used to gain a suitable response.A stimulus generalisation is when the stimulus can be generalised to a similar stimulus and still gain the same response.Example, A bell rings at a certain tone and a dog salivates, if the bell rang at a higher or lower tone the dog may still salivate. SO therefore have a generalised stimulus.A stimulus discrimination is when the participant can discriminate between stimulus ad therefore weaken the effect of the stimulus on the required response.Example, A dog is given increasingly different sounding bells from the original meaning the stimulus will have a decreased effect and eventually will not the response at all.


When a dog has been classically conditioned to salivate in response to the sound of middle c on a piano and then salivates when someone plays the d by mistake has occurred?

This is an example of generalization in classical conditioning. The dog has associated the sound of middle C with food (conditioned stimulus) and now also responds similarly to a slightly different sound (generalization).