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The 45 best phrases of Ivan Pavlov

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Ivan Pavlov is one of the most famous characters in psychology. Next to John B. Watson, It is the maximum exponent of what is known classical conditioning, an introductory subject of the career of psychology and one of the bases of learning and human behavior.

  • If you want to know more about this theory, in this article we explain it to you: "Classical conditioning and its most important experiments

Pavlov phrases and behaviorism

Since Pavlov's contributions marked a before and after in behavioral science, we wanted to make a list of his best phrases.

Below you can find them. Enjoy them!

1. Never think that you know everything. No matter how high you value yourself, always have the courage to tell yourself: I am ignorant

You have to be humble in this life and think that there is still much to learn. It is the best way not to relax and continue acquiring knowledge.

2. I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are truly united

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Pavlov was a great character who contributed a lot to psychology and to understanding how we learn. Although, in reality, he was a Russian physiologist.

3. Science demands from man great tension and great passion. Be passionate in your work and in your research

Investigations must be rigorous and objective, and investigators are the first to ensure that this is the case.

4. Perfect as a bird's wing can be, he will never allow the bird to fly if it is not taken in through the air. The facts are that air is like science. Without them, a man of science cannot rise.

Pavlov, as a good behaviorist, put a lot of emphasis on observation and scientific method. His contributions were key to the development of psychology as a science.

5. Learn the ABC's of science before attempting to reach its pinnacle

Before conducting research, you need to master the scientific method. No mistakes should be made in investigations.

6. I always stay on the ground of the facts: all my conjectures I check experimentally and, in this way, I always rely on the solution provided by the facts.

The rigorous observation of the facts is one of the characteristics of the experiments of this famous character. Along with Watson, he is one of the great exponents of Classical Conditioning.

7. It is clear to everyone that the animal organism is a very complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with each other and, as a whole, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of Balance.

Pavlov was always a passionate researcher, fond of the search for the causes of nature

8. Be disciplined and go deep into the cause

In reference to how a good researcher should be when conducting experiments.

9. Studying, experimenting, observing, try not to remain on the surface of the facts. Do not become archivists of the facts. Try to penetrate into the secret of its origin. Seek tenaciously the laws that regulate them.

To investigate, you have to get to the bottom of the question, it is necessary to investigate and control well the intervening variables.

10. For the naturalist everything is in the method

A quote from this behaviorist character that invites deep reflection.

11.. When I dissect and destroy a living animal, I hear within myself the bitter reproach that with a brutal and clumsy hand I am spoiling an incomparable artistic mechanism

Pavlov was a researcher who conducted his experiments on animals. One of the best known is that of his dogs. Thus he discovered classical conditioning.

12. Learn, compare, collect the facts!

Another allusion to how it is necessary to carry out experiments to obtain reliable conclusions.

13. It is often said, and not without reason, that science advances by leaps and bounds, that they depend on the successes obtained with the method of investigation. At each step forward of the methods, it seems as if we are ascending a new step, from which a broader horizon opens up to us, discovering previously invisible objects. Therefore, our first task has been the elaboration of the method

Pavlov's research was groundbreaking in his time, especially because of the rigor of his research and his passion for learning knowledge.

14. Condition people not to expect anything and you will have everyone turned on by the slightest thing you offer them.

Classic Conditioning consists of presenting an originally neutral stimulus together with a conditioned stimulus repeatedly. Thus it will be possible to provoke a conditioned response.

15. Authentic scientific theory must not only cover all existing material, but must open ample possibilities for further study and - let us express ourselves thus - for experimentation unlimited.

There should be no restrictions on research if we want to find true knowledge.

16. Thanks to our current surgical methods of physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all the phenomena of digestion without losing a single drop of blood, without a single cry from the animals subjected to the experiment

Initially, the experiment of the peoples of Pavlov, tried to know the mechanisms of digestion of animals and humans.

17. Man has yet another powerful resource: natural science, with its strictly objective methods.

Another mention of the scientific method. Pavlov was a proponent of observing behavior to understand the mind.

18. Do not forget that science requires the individual's entire life. If we had two lives, they wouldn't be enough either.

A quote that goes to say that a good researcher must put everything on his part at the service of science.

19. It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasted time and manpower, and to spare our animals from experimentation as much as possible, he made us strictly observe all precautions taken by surgeons in respect of their patients.

As a good physiologist, Ivan Pavlov compares medicine with research, in this case psychological.

20. Learn to do pawn work in science. Study, confront, accumulate facts. No matter how perfect the bird's wings might have been, they could never have allowed it to rise if it were not supported in the air. Facts are the air of the man of science. Without them, you can never take flight. Without them your theories will be vain endeavors.

Although research is a job that requires a lot of intelligence and leadership, you have to be a pawn to do the most basic things, including being disciplined.

21. I have obtained the most that can be expected of life: the full justification of the principles with which I began. I dreamed of finding the joy of living in intellectual work: I got it and I still enjoy it. I wanted to have a person full of goodness as a companion in my life and I have found it in my wife Serafima Vasilievna.

An extract from Ivan Pavlov's autobiographical book: "Physiology and Psychology."

22. The irresistible advance of the natural sciences since the time of Galileo has made its first stop before the study of the upper parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relationships of the animal with the world Exterior... now is the really critical time for the natural sciences, for the brain, at its highest complexity - the human brain - which created and creates natural science, becomes the object of this science.

Pavlov makes it clear that the study of psychological phenomena is really complex.

23. Men tend to be more easily influenced by words than by actual events in the surrounding reality

A statement by Pavlov that makes a lot of sense.

24. The question is still open as to whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be considered a science at all.

Psychology is a complex scienceThat is why it is often questioned as such.

26. From the experiment described it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even without reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands

Pavlov, in this sentence, makes clear his roots as a physiologist.

27. Gradualism, gradualism and gradualism. From the beginning of your work, instruct yourself in severe gradualness and in the accumulation of knowledge

The acquisition of knowledge must be gradual. You have to put effort and work. You should go slowly.

28. It is no accident that all the phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for bread. everyday life, the oldest link that connects all living things, including man, with nature surrounding

Human beings have always been interested in knowledge and in finding out the causes of things.

29. Don't become a fact classifier. It tries to penetrate to the bottom of the cause, pursues the search for the laws that govern them

To investigate and draw conclusions, it is not enough to scratch the surface. You have to get to the heart of the matter.

30. Appetite is a force that stimulates the gastric glands

A phrase about Pavlov's work in physiology.

31. Science can be a way to get to know even what seemed private

Through scientific investigation it is possible to answer questions that seemed to be totally veiled.

32. The limitations of psychology are not only methodological, but also conceptual

This Russian physiologist he was very critical of psychology.

33. You have to know when to leave questions for when there are tools to answer them

A phrase by Pavlov about the technological limitations in science.

34. Technology is progress only if our ideas evolve with it

Technological advance does not generate progress of ideas.

35. It is necessary to discard all ideas based on mentalism

A critique of this philosophical current.

  • Related article: "Mentalism in Psychology, belief in the soul, and why it is a problem"

36. In psychology it is possible to locate beginner problems

Pavlov speaks critically of the psychological science of his time, very backward in many respects.

37. Science opposes theological dogmas because it is based on facts

A reflection on scientific procedure and its way of adapting to reality.

38. The race to dominate human behavior cannot have an immediate end

For Pavlov, total control over acts is practically unfeasible.

39. Investigating the nerves of the body gives some power over the most basic processes

The nerve is one of the basic extensions of the nervous system, and therefore it gives rise to simple reactions.

40. A stimulus can be much more than it appears in a first trial

In a form of stimulation there is potential for future learning.

41. There is a lot of potential in the experimental method

Great finds can be made in a laboratory setting.

42. Segmenting complex phenomena into simpler ones is necessary

A reflection on reductionism.

43. Taking a step back to examine the ideas that underpin a line of inquiry never hurts

There is a philosophical work that supports all science.

44. Data needs to be interpreted, and that's extra work

The information revealed by the studies is not interpreted alone.

45. Arriving at the ideas that best describe reality is the task of the scientist

Pavlov talks about the role of the researcher.

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