Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov or Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian physician and psychiatrist, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1904 for his research on the digestive system, and one of his most famous works is the conditioned response theory that explains learning. One of Pavlov's dogs, Pavlov Museum, Ryazan, Russia He was a professor at the Military Medical Academy until 1925 and a member of the Academy of Sciences starting in 1907. He was awarded the Nobel Prize. Pavlov believed that complex psychological activities are a product of the relationship between the organism and the environment in the form of conditioned reflexes that represent the response of the organism to the medium in which it is located, which represents an external action. and in connection with the environment. Pavlov's idea of ​​this was his discoveries of conditional reflexes, which had a significant impact on building his new theory of psychological life. In his works he tried to answer his basic question, which is the nature of the relationship between the brain and psychological activities, and he says in this regard, “Can we not find primary psychological manifestations that can at the same time be, in a universal way, a physiological phenomenon?”