Practice question · True or false
Pavlov set out to study conditioning and used digestion as a convenient model system.
Hints
- Which came first, the salivation or the theory?
- He was measuring gastric secretion.
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False
Why
False. It was the other way round: Pavlov was studying digestive secretion and was troubled by dogs salivating before food arrived, the 'psychic secretions' he first treated as a nuisance. He won his Nobel for the digestion work, then spent decades on the accident.
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