1. Pavlov was actually studying the gastric functions of dogs by surgically externalizing a salivary gland so he could collect and analyze the saliva, and the response saliva had to food in different conditions.
2. The experiment Pavlov conducted was: Dog was brought food to measure salivation; a noise was made before the food was actually given to the dog. Pavlov noticed the dog salivated before the food arrived. He concluded that the dog associated the noise with the food and that was why he salivated.
3. The conditioned stimulus of this experiment is: the food, the unconditioned stimulus is: the noise, and the conditioned response is: salivation.
4. Extinction in relation to classical conditioning: a gradual weakening and eventually disappearance of the conditioned response tendency. Extinction occurs from multiple presentations of conditioned response without the unconditioned stimulus.
5. Stimulus generalization in relation to classical conditioning: a response to a specific stimulus becomes associated to other stimuli (similar stimuli) and now occurs to those other similar stimuli.
6. Stimulus discrimination in relation to classical conditioning: learning to respond to one stimulus and not another.
7. Two limitations of this experiment are: 1. He had surgically changed salivation, this makes the experiment difficult to reconstruct. 2. He did not give food to animals so when the time of the experiment arrived they were hungry.
8. Pavlov theorized that we learn by associating sound, noises or signs to different meanings, for example a red light in a stoplight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov
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