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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Ivan Pavlov, or the principles of conditioned responses that he investigated.

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  • adjective Of or relating to the theories of the Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, especially those related to behavioral conditioning.

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  • adjective of or relating to Ivan Pavlov or his experiments

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Derived from the name of the Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936).

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