Q 01/05

Ivan Pavlov is best remembered for discovering which form of learning?

A) Classical conditioning

B) Operant conditioning

C) Observational learning

D) Latent learning

Answer · why

A) Classical conditioning

He stumbled onto it while studying digestion, noticing that his dogs began salivating before any food appeared.

Q 02/05

Which animal did Pavlov use in his most famous experiments?

A) Pigeons

B) Rats

C) Dogs

D) Rabbits

Answer · why

C) Dogs

His laboratory kept a full-scale kennel so the animals could live long, healthy lives through years of long-term experiments.

Q 03/05

In which year did Pavlov win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

A) 1904

B) 1909

C) 1913

D) 1919

Answer · why

A) 1904

He had been nominated every year since 1901, but earlier nominations were too scattered across laboratory findings to point at a single discovery.

Q 04/05

Pavlov's Nobel Prize was awarded for his research on which subject?

A) Conditioned reflexes in dogs

B) The nerves of the heart

C) Temperament types

D) The physiology of digestion

Answer · why

D) The physiology of digestion

The conditioning work that made him a household name came later and was never what the Nobel committee honoured.

Q 05/05

Pavlov's 1904 Nobel made him the first laureate from which country?

A) Sweden

B) Poland

C) Germany

D) Russia

Answer · why

D) Russia

He was later fêted by the Soviet state he openly despised, which kept his laboratory funded regardless.