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Pavlov|ˈpavlɒf, ˈpævlɒv| Also Pavloff, etc. The name of the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936), used attrib. or in the possessive to designate aspects of his work, esp. those connected with conditioning the salivary reflexes of a dog to the mental stimulus of the sound of a bell.
1911Stedman Med. Dict. 644/2 Pavloff method,..a quantitative study of the modifications of the salivary reflexes caused by psychic reactions. 1922K. Dunlap Elements Sci. Psychol. xiv. 303 The development of the auditory-salivary reaction in Pavloff's dog. 1933J. C. Flügel Hundred Years Psychol. xi. 208 He became much concerned with Pavlov's conditioned reflex and the psychology of food. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xxviii. 379 The Pavlov-trained dog, when faced with an ambiguous stimulus,..becomes deranged in all his reflexes. 1967Listener 3 Aug. 138/2, I had a kind of Pavlov-dog reaction, shaking with nerves, because I'd been very nervous when I'd done that first film nine years before. 1974Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 27 Oct. 30/4 Such de- or re-conditioning is quick, cheap, and, like Pavlov's bells, it gets results. 1976A. White Long Silence ii. 19 You're not a Pavlov dog, trained to bark when I ring a bell. You have a mind of your own. |