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Originally Posted by woj
if you are doing "pavlov's dogs"-type of experiments, it's hard to argue that those experiments are not scientific...
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Pavlov wasn't a psychologist. Psychology took his discovery and ran with it.
" In 1904, Pavlov was awarded the Nobel laureate "in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged".[13]
While at the Institute of Experimental Medicine he carried out his classical experiments on the digestive glands which is how he eventually won the Nobel prize mentioned above.[14]
Pavlov investigated the gastric function of dogs, and later, children,[15] by externalizing a salivary gland so he could collect, measure, and analyze the saliva and what response it had to food under different conditions. He noticed that the dogs tended to salivate before food was actually delivered to their mouths, and set out to investigate this "psychic secretion", as he called it.
Pavlov’s laboratory housed a full-scale kennel for the experimental animals. Pavlov was interested in observing their long-term physiological processes. This required keeping them alive and healthy in order to conduct chronic experiments, as he called them.
These were experiments over time, designed to understand the normal functions of animals.