... presented. The salivatory reflex was being set of by other stimuli such as the sight of the food, or seeing the person who regularly fed them (Cardwell et al 2001). This led Pavlov to begin to formulate the principle of classical conditioning, and he developed his experiment to test his theory. Pavlov presented the dogs with meat power, which elicits the salivation response and at the same time the sound of a bell or tone. The food (un-conditioned response) was constantly presented after the sound of the tone (conditioned response) for several trials and eventually the sound of the tone alone elicited a salivatory response. Pavlov had successfully conditioned the dog to respond to a neutral stimulus (the tone) with salivation, this therefore is known as the conditioned response. Pavlov made a distinction between an unconditioned reflex and a conditioned reflex (Gleitman et al 1999). He believed that unconditioned ...

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