As a seminarian, he only took one course in psychology.
His father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, was the village priest so Ivan was first educated at the Ryazan Ecclesiastical High School and then at the Ryazan Ecclesiastical Seminary, where he planned to pursue a career in the priesthood. However, this is just a very small fraction of Pavlov’s researches and his life.Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born on Septemin Ryazan, about 200 km south-east of Moscow. Our brains have been conditioned with the myth, as stated by George Johnson in The New York Times (December, 2014). Nowadays, we reflexively link his name to a dinging bell and a drooling dog, although he never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell. Most papers studying emotional learning and emotion-related disorders are mainly based on the experiments performed by the famous Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov more than a century ago.