Pavlov's First Response to His Dogs' Mysterious Salivary Response to His

Multiple Choice

Pavlov's first response to his dogs' mysterious salivary response to his laboratory assistant was to

A) ignore it.
B) treat it as a confounding variable.
C) begin experimenting to see what was controlling this behaviour.
D) perform surgery on the dogs to see if physiological variables were causing the excessive salivation.
E) redesign the original experiment to eliminate possible confounds.