Pavlov's Long Term Influences

Pavlov's research greatly affected the psychological world, by giving psychologists the idea of "conditioning" as a way to see why people react to situations the way they do. His experiments even gave us the term "Pavlov's dog" which describes a person who reacts in a situation based purely on former experiences rather than actually analyzing the matter at hand. His ideas also influenced Tomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, and Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. Unfortunatley, many of Pavlov's earlier studies on the inner workings on the human body were either proven slightly wrong or were not very pertinent to today's scientific discoveries. I belive Pavlovs ideas were very interesting for his time, but simply do not compare to some of the new ones of our times, which is why he is not as well known as he probably should be.