Psych101(part2)--Day2

学习笔记，有错必纠

学习书籍：《Psych 101》-- Paul Kleinman

Psych 101

IVAN PAVLOV (1849-1936)
The man who studied man’s best friend

Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russia, on September 14th,1849.
The son of the village priest, Pavlov originally studied theology until 1870, when he abandoned his religious studies and attended the University of St. Petersburg to study physiology and chemistry.

From 1884 to 1886,Pavlov studied under renowned cardiovascular physiologist Carl Ludwig and gastrointestinal physiologist Rudolf Heidenhain.

By 1890, Pavlov had become a skilled surgeon and took an interest in the regulation of blood pressure.

Without the use of any anesthesia, Pavlov was able to almost painlessly insert a catheter into a dog’s femoral artery and record the impact that emotional and pharmacological stimuli had on blood pressure.

However, Pavlov’s most influential research with dogs - classical conditioning - was yet to come.

From 1890 to 1924, Ivan Pavlov worked at the Imperial Medical Academy as a professor of physiology.

In his first ten years at the academy, he began to turn his attention towards the correlation between salivation and digestion.

Through a surgical procedure, Pavlov was able to study the gastrointestinal secretions of an animal during its life span within relatively normal conditions; and he conducted experiments to show the relationship between autonomic functions and the nervous system.

This research led to the development of Pavlov’s most important concept, the conditioned reflex.

By 1930, Pavlov had begun using his research on conditioned reflexes to explain human psychoses.

Doctoral Definitions

A response that becomes associated with a previously unrelated stimulus as a result of pairing the stimulus with another stimulus normally yielding the response.

Though he was praised and supported by the Soviet Union,Pavlov was an outspoken critic of the government’s Communist regime and even denounced the government publicly in 1923,following a trip to the United States.

When, in 1924, the government expelled the sons of priests at the former Imperial Medical Academy,Pavlov,the son of a priest himself,resigned from his position as professor.

Dr. Ivan Pavlov died on February 27th,1936, in Leningrad.

Daily Sentence

How few of his friends’ houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

——Samuel Johnson

中文解释

一个人在生病的时候，还有几个朋友能为他提供去处呢

——塞缪尔·约翰逊