I said: > > I note that contrary to what is stated, Pavlov neither used a bell > in his famous experiment nor won the Nobel Prize for it.
Chris Green replied: > Actually, it turns out that Pavlov did use a bell sometimes. There was > an article about it some years ago: Nope. Roger Thomas' fine article notwithstanding, I stand by my claim. While there were rare occasions on which Pavlov used a bell, successful salivary conditioning (his "famous experiment") was not one of them. I seem to recall that in his 1906 review in _The Lancet_ he mentioned the _unsuccessful_ use of a loud bell, but I'd have to check that. He did use something sometimes referred to as an "electric bell", but that seems to be what we (and Anrep, I recall) would describe as a buzzer. A metronome was his favourite. This leads to an intriguing mystery: why is it so widely believed that Pavlov used a bell in salivary conditioning when he didn't? > Indeed, I own a video made in Pavlov's lab (in the 1930s, I believe) > in which a bell is actually used at one point. You can purchase it > through the Archives for the History of American Psychology at the > University oif Akron. The bell was used in the film only to demonstrate an orienting reflex, not salivary conditioning. Depictions of salivary conditioning, as I recall, were mostly with a metronome. > > Pavlov won the 1904 Nobel Prize for medicine, though for the earlier > work on digestion Yes. Not for his famous experiment. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
