Explain The Limitations Of Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov was a physiologist who was born on the 26 September, 1849 in Ryazan Russia. Pavlov is known for the work in Classical Conditioning. His most famous study is "Pavlov's dogs". He won the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology in 1904 and the Copley Medal in 1914 and 1915, Pavlov died on the 27 February 1936 in St. Petersburg, Russia at the age of 86.
Pavlov was studying the digestion in dogs as he wasn't originally studying conditioning but his main aim was to find if reflective behaviour could be introduced in situations through learning. Pavlov wanted to see if the dogs he was working with would learn to associate something like the sound of a bell ringing, with food being received. The procedure of this experiment was that Pavlov would have the dog and himself with the bell in the same room, the bell was a neutral stimulus and after a few trials of giving the food to

This is an ethical issue as nobody knows if Little Albert was affected by this as he got older. Another limitation of Watson's study was that there was only ever one test subject (Little Albert) so nobody would know if a different baby would have given different results making the study very limited. A strength of the study was that Watson wanted to see if Classical Conditioning could work on humans in which it could but with that it links to a previous limitation in that nobody knows if Watson could've removed the fear from Albert. The last limitation of Watson's study was that there was no protection for A strength of Pavlov's study is that it was in a Lab and this is a strength because they're in a controlled environment which can give better results without any distractions. A limitation was that the study was only tested on dogs so if he had tested it on humans the results may not have been the