ABSTRACT

The last recorded publication in Pavlov's official Selected Works is a letter dated 7 January 1936 and addressed to a gathering of 'leading miners' in the Donetz basin in the Ukraine. It is, however, worthy of comment that Pavlov had considerable eminence in his own country, as well as internationally, following the award of his Nobel prize in 1904; and his theoretical terminology and experimental techniques spread to the applied human sciences. Pavlov had more to say, since he had more data on experimentally induced neuroses. His best-known cases were accidental since they resulted from a severe flood in Leningrad in 1924. A second method of producing 'experimental neurosis' was to give dogs particularly difficult conditioning tasks. Many undergraduates become familiar with the Eysenck personality inventory - a questionnaire by which fellow students can be placed somewhere along a continuum from 'introversion' to 'extraversion'.