Iván Pávlov

 The person that I admire is Iván Petrovich Pávlov, a russian physiologist. He was born on September 14st, 1849 at Riazán. First he began their studies of theology, but he quit this career for study medicine and chemistry at Saint Petersburg state university. Here he specialized in intestinal physiology and circulatory system. In 1904 by their work of gastric juices, Pavlov he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology. Finally, he died of pneumonia on February 27st, 1936 at Saint Petersburg.

 In a one of their investigations Pávlov discovered the classical conditioning. This work is very important because he managed to show the existence of the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus. He trained dogs to react in front of stimulus whose had no effects previously. An example of unconditioned reflex is to make to salivate a dog after of listen to one sound instead of show him their food.

 I admire to Iván Pávlov because in spite of not to be a psychologist, he managed to make experiments that influenced the behavioral approach.