Pavlov believed that his work on the conditioned reflex discovered the physiological mechanism for what for centuries had been called ____ by philosophers and psychologists.

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Pavlov's work on the conditioned reflex was a major contribution to the concepts of associationism, which suggests that ideas and experiences become associated through repeated pairing. This idea had been discussed and theorized by philosophers and psychologists for centuries prior to Pavlov's experiments.

Pavlov Believed That His Work on the Conditioned Reflex Discovered