Ivan Pavlon 1849-1936

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), world famous Russian physiologist became second to Freud as the most influential psychologist of our century. Pavlov was a follower of "The father of Russian psychology," Sechenov, whose theory was that the reflex is the essence of all reactions. Pavlov went further and discovered that the conditional reflex is a response, which is not directly connected with the stimulus, but caused by association with a previous experience. The conditioned reflex was …

…Pavlovo, in the memory of Ivan Pavlov. It is a scientific community, where research laboratories and neuropsychic clinics and young children's experimental schools flourish.Furthermore, Pavlov's importance is that he brought back to life the subject of association, that had been forgotten sicne Aristotle. His findings, related to the conditional reflex, are the basis to the understanding of the mechanism of change in people and animals. This discovery changed the views of psychology regarding behavior.