wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Pavlov's Experiment

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Ivan Pavlov is a ____________ scientist who won a Nobel Prize on Physiology and Medicine.

a)

German

b)

British

c)

Russian

d)

American

2.

Ivan Pavlov was initially interested in a research on ______________ and ____________________.

a)

dogs, food

b)

dogs, behavior

c)

digestion, salivary glands

d)

dogs, digestion

3.

What was the strange thing that happen during his experiment on digestion and salivary glands of dogs?

a)

The dogs salivated when food was presented.

b)

The dogs ate the food.

c)

The dogs salivated before food was presented.

d)

The dogs barked.

4.

When he saw such reaction, Pavlov decided to conduct a research to systematically varying the _____________________.

a)

stimuli and measuring the dogs' reaction.

b)

dogs' reaction.

c)

stimuli.

d)

food and the dogs' action.

5.

During the research, Pavlov discovered a fundamental type of learning known as __________________.

a)

Classical Conditioner

b)

Classical Conditioning

c)

Operant Conditioning

d)

Conditioning

6.

When an original stimulus elicits an automatic unlearned response (i.e. stimulus and response happen naturally), they are called ______________________.

a)

unconditioned

b)

unconditioned stimulus (UCS) and unconditioned response (UCR)

c)

conditioned stimulus (CS) and conditioned response (CR)

d)

conditioned

7.

If the neutral stimulus (e.g. bell) is presented alone and response occurs as if the food is there, we can say that _____________.

a)

the dogs are getting used to it

b)

the conditioning has taken place

c)

the dogs like the sound of a bell

d)

the dogs like to salivate

8.

From the experiment, we can sum up that learning occurs through interactions with the environment and the environment shapes _________________.

a)

intelligence

b)

behavior

c)

personality

d)

dogs