biography
| name: |
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
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pronunciation:
[pavlov]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1849–1936)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Ryazan, W Russia. He studied medicine at St Petersburg, conducted research in Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia), and Leipzig, and returned to St Petersburg, where he became professor (1890) and director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine (1913). He worked on the physiology of circulation and digestion, and from 1902 studied what later became known as Pavlovian conditioning (or classical conditioning) in animals, summarizing this work in Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes (1926). A major influence on the development of behaviourism in psychology, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904. |
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