Roger K. Thomas (1994) Pavlov Used a Bell
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Psycoloquy 5(63): Pavlov Used a Bell
PAVLOV USED A BELL
Commentary on Littman on Pavlov-Bell
Roger K. Thomas
Department of Psychology
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3013
rkthomas@uga.cc.uga.edu
Abstract
Littman (1994) followed up Catania's (1994) about query
whether Pavlov had ever used a bell as a conditioned stimulus (CS).
Catania and Littman were unable to find evidence that Pavlov used a
bell. Littman argued that the bell as the prototypical CS was
likely attributable to V.M. Bekhterev and John B. Watson. Pavlov
used a bell in an experiment reported in 1923 and retracted in
1927. It is unclear whether Littman's argument is affected.
Keywords
conditioning, Watson, Bekhterev, behaviorism, Pavlov
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