physiologist who conducted the classical conditioning studies with dogs
Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist whose research on the physiology of digestion led to the development of the first experimental model of learning, Classical Conditioning. Most of his research was gathered studying salivating dogs.
One of the first researchers to study behavior modification was a Russian physiologist named Ivan Pavlov. In the early 1900s, Pavlov discovered that animals could be taught to react in a certain way by connecting a desired behavior with a specific type of positiveor negative reinforcement.