Profile of Ivan Pavlov was born on September 14, 1849 in the village of Ryazan, Russia, the son of Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, who was the village priest. Because he was the son of a priest, he attended church school and enrolled in a theology seminary. Being the son of a preacher, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov would follow in his father's footsteps, until he read a book by Charles Darwin called "The Origin of Species." After reading this book, Ivan Pavlov abandoned his theological studies and enrolled in a natural science program at St. Petersburg University. After enrolling at St. Petersburg University, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov discovered his passion, physiology. Physiology is the branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of living organisms and their body parts, including all physical and chemical processes. It was here that Ivan Pavlov, in collaboration with a classmate, wrote his first article on "The Physiology of Pancreatic Nerves". Ivan Pavlov received his first gold medal for this article. However, this is not the only gold medal that Ivan has received; won the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology in 1904 "in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and expanded" Nobelprize.org. During his Nobel Prize speech in 1904 he presented his theory of classical conditioning. Ivan Pavlov was also elected Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1907, awarded an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in 1912, and awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor in 1915. But these were not the studies that made him famous in the world of psychology; it was his study of canine digest... middle of paper... dwich. But I ate Johnny Rockets food right before I started throwing up. So I paired Johnny Rockets food with vomiting and feeling nauseous, and since food is a primary reinforcer it only took me once to match nausea and food poisoning with Johnny Rockets. My conditioned response to Johnny Rockets is a feeling of nausea. Works Cited • "Ivan Pavlov - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 10 Dec 2011 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1904/pavlov-bio.html• "Pavlov's Dog." Nobelprize.org. 10 Dec 2011 http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/pavlov/readmore.html• “Ivan Pavlov”. http://www.muskingum.edu. Mindy Lautenheiser. May 1999 http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/pavlov.htm• Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White. "Psychology". Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2006