Pavlov's Major Ideas

While Pavlov focused most of his career on the sciences of digestion and and the circulatory system, (Though he did win a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his experiments, in 1904 ) Pavlov's most famous and probably most interesting idea was his discovery of what came to be known as Pavlovian Response, or Pavlovian Conditioning. Pavlov was working with dogs to test and measure thier saliva for a scientific investigation in 1890, when he realised taht the dogs would salivate before they recieved their food, and he started to investigate why this happend, calling it "psychic secretion". He ran numerous experiments in the 1900's and he discovered that reflexes in animals only happened conditionally after previous experiences that ended in the same ways.